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Maine Local Government - Town of York - Main Page
The plantation of Agamenticus (or Acomenticus), now the town of York, was established on March 25, 1636 and incorporated as a city on April 10, 1641. The name is from the Abnaki meaning small river other side of island. A Native American returning from the sea would find what is now the York River as the smaller one on the other side of an island from the larger Piscataqua River. Sir Fernando Gorges in 1641 immodestly named the capital city of his province Gorgeana. The town of York, was incorporated on November 22, 1652 from a portion of that city and is the second oldest town in Maine. The oldest is Kittery incorporated only two days earlier. Most of the town's inhabitants are located between U.S. Route 1 (inland) and U.S. Route 1A which runs along the coast. Its population has more than doubled in the past thirty years, and grew by nearly 31 percent between 1990 and 2000. ... [Read More]

Maine Local Government - Town of Kittery - Main Page
Kittery is a town in York County, incorporated from Piscataquis Plantation on November 20, 1652 as the first town in the District of Maine. It was joined by York two days later. Apledore was incorporated as a town in 1661; its name was changed to Isles of Shoals in 1665 and then annexed to Kittery in 1696. The town serves as the gateway to Maine from points south with its old and more modern bridges spanning the Piscataqua River. The federal government established the Navy Yard at Kittery in 1806. The 74-gun ship Washington was the first vessel built in the Yard in 1815. ... [Read More]

Maine Local Government - Town of Eliot - Main Page
Eliot is a town in York County, incorporated on March 1, 1810 from a portion of Kittery. Settled in the 1630's it was part of the Piscataqua Plantation created in 1647. Its many historic sites include Maine's first Quaker Meetinghouse built in 1776. A growing residential community serving the Kittery and Portsmouth areas, its population expanded by almost 12 percent in the 1990-2000 decade. ... [Read More]

Maine.gov: Facts & History: Weather & Climate
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Maine MapStats from FedStats
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Maine State Library: Maine In Print - Oct.-Dec. 2004
Golden, Christopher, and Hautale, Rick. Last Breath. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004. (0-689-86526-0) $5.99 Pbk. A psycho killer is on a rampage, drowning his victims in Boston's most public places. Medical examiner Jenna Blake uncovers a key piece of evidence, then finds her own life in danger. Coauthor Rick Hautala lives in Maine. ... [Read More]

Senator Olympia J. Snowe
Maine abounds in natural assets - 542,629 acres of state and national parks, including the 92-mile Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Acadia National Park (one of the top ten most visited national parks in the United States), and Baxter State Park (location of Mt. Katahdin and the northern end of the Appalachian Trail). It has one county (Aroostook) so big (6,453 square miles) that it actually covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Maine has one mountain which is approximately one mile high - Mt. Katahdin (5,271 ft. above sea level) and also claims America's first chartered city: York, 1641.  ... [Read More]