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:
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Those Maine woods differ essentially from ours. There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager’s familiar wood-lot, some widow’s thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan, too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)