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			1607 Popham Colony planted in Maine

1615 seasonal fishing settlements in NH and Maine

			1624 Pemaquid (Maine) established

1629 Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine.

			1725 Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket

1800 Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes

			1820 Missouri Compromise guarantees statehood for Maine

1846 Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse

			1850 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont

1885 After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.

			1898 Emily Tyson begins refurbishing Hamilton House in Maine

1900 Old Gaol opened in York, Maine

			1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House

1902 William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine

			1924 Ku Klux Klan has 50,000 members in Maine

1928 A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine

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