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PublishedNovember 17, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 17
Nov. 17, 2018: Thornton Academy’s football team completes its first unbeaten season since 1986 with a lopsided 49-14 win against Portland High School in Maine’s Class A state championship game. The 11-0 string of Trojans’ victories is all the more impressive because opposing teams never even held a temporary lead over Thornton in any game […]
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PublishedNovember 16, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 16
Nov. 16, 1975: Television crews and reporters converge on the Kennebec River to record the last major log drive in the contiguous 48 U.S. states. The Maine Legislature passed a law in 1971 banning log drives after Oct. 1, 1976, but in 1975 the practice already is dying out for economic reasons, given that it […]
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PublishedNovember 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 15
Nov. 15, 1888: The Maine Steamship Co. accepts a $160,000 bid from Bath Iron Works for the construction of the steamship Cottage City. It is the 4-year-old Bath shipyard’s first shipbuilding project. The vessel is delivered to the owners in May 1890. It carries passengers between Portland and New York for more than seven years […]
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PublishedNovember 14, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 14
Nov. 14, 1899: Walter Wyman, who studied engineering, and Harvey Eaton, a lawyer, begin operating the Oakland Electric Light Co., which they had bought for $4,500 seven days earlier. The company eventually buys up other electric companies and becomes the Central Maine Power Co., Maine’s largest electric utility. Construction of dams began in Oakland in […]
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PublishedNovember 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 13
Nov. 13, 2000: The federal government lists the wild Atlantic salmon as an endangered species in Maine. The decision, made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, grants federal protection for the species, which at the time is believed to have dwindled to fewer than 150 fish. Gov. Angus […]
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PublishedNovember 12, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 12
Nov. 12, 1932: An equestrian statue of Leeds native Oliver Otis Howard is unveiled at the site of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, in which Howard fought as commander of XI Army Corps. Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot and Maine Gov. William Tudor Gardiner, who will become a wartime Army officer himself a decade later […]
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PublishedNovember 11, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 11
Nov. 11, 1825: Portland’s Eastern Argus newspaper reports that a third riot in a year’s time has broken out in reaction to the presence of bordellos in the city. The first round of the so-called Portland Whorehouse Riots took place in 1824, when a group of men and boys ejected the bordellos’ tenants and tore […]
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PublishedNovember 10, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 10
Nov. 10, 1866: Nineteen months after the Civil War’s end, the first patient is admitted to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch, at the former Togus Springs summer resort near Augusta, the first such facility in the nation. The hospital complex accommodates fewer than 400 patients at first, but an aggressive building […]
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PublishedNovember 9, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 9
Nov. 9, 2017: Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap files a federal lawsuit against President Trump’s voter-fraud commission, of which Dunlap is a member, in an effort to get information about the panel’s correspondence and its work. One of four Democrats on the 11-member Presidential Advisory Committee for Election Integrity, Dunlap says he requested the […]
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PublishedNovember 8, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 8
Nov. 8, 1836: Milton Bradley, future business manager and board game pioneer, is born in the Kennebec County town of Vienna. Bradley’s family moves to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1847. He becomes a mechanical engineer and patent solicitor in Springfield, Massachusetts, then develops a board game, The Checkered Game of Life, which includes such punishments as […]
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