On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard

Bicentennial

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April 7, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard

April 7, 2010: Maine’s Legislature issues a statement of apology for state officials’ forcible eviction a century earlier of a largely interracial group of residents from Malaga Island, in Casco Bay. The island lies off Phippsburg near the mouth of the New Meadows River. A racially mixed community of squatter fishermen’s families lived there. Newspaper […]
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April 6, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 6
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April 5, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 5
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April 4, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 4
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April 3, 2020

On this date in Maine history: UMaine hockey wins first national title

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April 2, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 2
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April 1, 2020

On this date in Maine history: April 1

April 1, 1968: Dow Air Force Base in Bangor officially closes. The city of Bangor obtains the airfield and reopens it the following year as Bangor International Airport. Bangor had allocated $75,000 for development of the base in 1940. The Maine Military Defense Commission funded the purchase of the base’s land. With construction of what […]
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March 31, 2020

On this date in Maine history: Bates grad resigns as chief engineer of Panama Canal
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March 30, 2020

On this date in Maine history: March 30
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March 29, 2020

On this date in Maine history: March 29