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• January 24 – At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine are killed in the Candlemas Massacre, carried out by French soldiers led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki and Penobscot Indians under the command of Penobscot Chief Madockawando during King William's War, between the French colonists and their indigenous allies, against the English colonists.
• It is bordered by Sherman to the south, Island Falls to the east, Hersey to the north and Patten in Penobscot County to the west.
• This fictional town is based on Orrington, Maine near the fictional cities of Derry and Castle Rock and is across the Penobscot River from the real life cities of Bangor and Orono.
• Its commanding position at the mouth of the Penobscot River estuary, a lucrative source of furs and timber, as well as a major transportation route into the interior, made the peninsula occupied by the present-day town of Castine of particular interest to European Colonialization in the 17th century.
• A picturesque working waterfront and tranquil tourist destination in eastern Penobscot Bay, Stonington has consistently ranked among the top lobster ports in the country and is the largest lobster port in Maine.
• On the north-east it is bounded by Ellsworth, on the south-west, by Blue Hill, on the west, by Orland and Penobscot.
• It was territory of the Penobscot Abenaki Indians when, in 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain named it Isle au Haut, meaning High Island.
• The island is located within Penobscot Bay about 20 miles east of the mainland coast and is accessible by state ferry service from Rockland or by air taxi from Knox County Regional Airport.
• Later it became part of the territory of the Penobscot Abenaki Indians, who hunted and fished in canoes along the coast.
• Since there is no bridge to the island, Vinalhaven is primarily accessible from Rockland via an approximately 75-minute state ferry ride across West Penobscot Bay, or by air taxi from Knox County Regional Airport.
• Brewer's sawmills tended to be steam-powered, unlike those farther up the Penobscot River, which were powered by waterfalls.
• A number of Penobscot County towns incorporated in the same period such as Milo, Etna, Carmel, and Levant (and Troy, in neighboring Waldo County) were given similarly exotic names, referencing the ancient Mediterranean world, probably in order to help attract settlers.
• It is located between the towns of Argyle and Howland along Maine State Route 116 on the west bank of the Penobscot River.
• One of the largest water powered sawmills then on the Penobscot River was built in Medway in 1820 by Gen.
• Katahdin is believed to have been utilized by Penobscot and Maliseet peoples for thousands of years.
• The city's location along a series of rapids in the Penobscot River, near the head of tide just downstream in Bangor, made it an ideal location in the 1800s to marshal the water power for mills to process lumber from the millions of board feet of spruce and pine logs floated annually down the Penobscot.
• As of 2002, the Penobscot Energy Recovery Corporation (PERC) waste-to-energy incinerator remained the only industrial employer (82 people).
• Two factors explain Patten's comparatively early development, and its position as the major town of the Penobscot panhandle and southwestern Aroostook in the nineteenth century.
• The area was once territory of the Penobscot tribe of the Abenaki people, which each summer visited the seashore to hunt for fish, shellfish and seafowl.
• Frankfort is the oldest town on the Penobscot River, first settled in the 1760s by Massachusetts soldiers from nearby Fort Pownall.

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