Maine
Details
- Names
Maine
ME
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Red Paint people settled here as early as 9th mill. BCE; later Algonquians arrived; Norsemen possibly visited in 11th cen.; colonies established by French in 1604 and English in 1607; fought in Revolution & with Union; Canadian border disputed in 19th cen.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Active
Gary Green (American, born 1956)
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