History Of Maine
The history of the area comprising the U.S. state of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or less than two hundred, measured from the advent of U.S. statehood in 1820. The present article will concentrate on the period of European contact and after.
The origin of the name Maine is unclear. One theory is it was named after the French province of Maine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main" or "Main Land", "Meyne" or "Mainland", which served to distinguish the bulk of the state from its numerous islands.
Read more about History Of Maine: Pre-European History, Colonial Period, American Revolution, War of 1812, Maine Constitutional Convention and Statehood, The Aroostook War, Industrialization, "Ohio Fever", The California Gold Rush, and Westward Migration From Maine, Civil War, Demographics, Modern Maine
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“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
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“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)