Maine
- Maine (one theory suggests the state was named after the historic French province of Maine)
- Cadillac Mountain
- Calais (after Calais, France)
- Caribou
- Castine
- Deblois
- Detroit
- Fayette
- Fort Pentagouet
- Frenchboro
- Frenchville
- Grand Isle
- Isle au Haut
- Lagrange
- Lamoine
- Minot
- Montville
- Mount Desert Island
- Paris
- Presque Isle (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The town is surrounded on three sides by water, and therefore is "almost an island")
- Portage Lake
- Roque Bluffs
- Saint Croix Island
- St. Francis River
- Saint John River
- Tremont
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word maine:
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I have been oranging and fat,
carrot colored, gaped at,
allowing my cracked o’s to drop on the sea
near Venice and Mombasa.
Over Maine I have rested.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)