List of City Nicknames in The United States - Maine

Maine

  • Bangor - The Queen City of the East.
  • Bath - The City of Ships.
  • Cherryfield - Blueberry Capital of the World.
  • Farmington - Earmuff Capital of the World.
  • Millinocket - The Magic City
  • Portland - Forest City (reported in 1894)
  • Presque Isle - The Star City.
  • Rockland - Lobster Capital of the World.
  • Strong - Toothpick Capital of the World.
  • Waterville
    • The Elm City
    • The University City of Maine

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Famous quotes containing the word maine:

    “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)

    “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)

    “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)