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PublishedOctober 10, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 10
Oct. 10, 1980: President Jimmy Carter signs the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act, ending 1976 lawsuits by the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, in which they claimed about 12.5 million acres of Maine, or two-thirds of the state’s territory. Under the new law, the tribes will receive a total of $81.5 million as compensation for […]
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PublishedOctober 9, 2020
Hiker found dead on summit of Katahdin
The second death of a hiker on Katahdin in 2 days prompts officials to remind hikers that Maine’s biggest mountain ‘is a formidable place, especially as winter approaches.’
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PublishedOctober 9, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 9
Oct. 9, 1866: A fire that began about 3 a.m. burns until noon in Wiscasset, destroying more than 50 buildings, including the customs house, a hotel, a marble works and hay warehouses, as well as two yachts at the wharf. A strong northeast wind makes it impossible to stop the fire, and it races to […]
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PublishedOctober 8, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 8
Oct. 8, 1829: Gov. Enoch Lincoln, Maine’s sixth governor, dies in Augusta at 40, becoming the state’s first governor to die while in office. Lincoln’s chief claim to fame might be his role in determining that Augusta would become Maine’s capital and that the State House would be built there on Weston’s Hill, but he […]
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PublishedOctober 7, 2020
Dispute over estate may have sparked killings in Waldo County
A police affidavit provides new information about the evidence that led to a double murder charge against a Benton man.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 7
Oct. 7, 1923: The first section of the Appalachian Trail opens in Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks in upstate New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. The brainchild of Benton MacKaye, the trail eventually grows to about 2,200 miles, with its northern terminus on Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain. Civilian Conservation […]
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PublishedOctober 6, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 6
Oct. 6, 1869: The newly built location of the Bangor Children’s Home is dedicated at 218 Ohio St. in Bangor. A group of Bangor women established the home’s predecessor organization, the Bangor Female Orphans Asylum, in 1836 on the city’s Fourth Street. For many years, that institution took in girls and arranged for their adoption. […]
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PublishedOctober 5, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 5
Oct. 5, 1785: In response to a notice published in the Falmouth Gazette, about 30 men from Cumberland, Lincoln and York counties gather at the meeting house of ministers Thomas Smith and Samuel Deane in Falmouth to discuss, for the first time in a formal setting, a proposal that Maine separate from Massachusetts to become […]
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PublishedOctober 4, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 4
Oct. 4, 1992: Portland is granted an Eastern League minor league baseball expansion team. The Portland Sea Dogs begin playing April 7, 1994, as a double-A affiliate of the Florida Marlins. They make the playoffs for the first time in 1995. In 2003 the team becomes a Boston Red Sox affiliate. The team wins the […]
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PublishedOctober 3, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 3
Oct. 3, 2014: A federal judge orders the bankruptcy case of Great Northern Paper Co. transferred from Delaware to Maine. A lawyer for the towns of Millinocket and East Millinocket, where GNP operated two mills, says at the hearing that the company owes the towns more than $3 million in back taxes. GNP filed for […]
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