Interesting facts and trivia about Maine (Milo, Machias: motel, university, to live in)

[Elcarim]

Awesome thread idea!

[Unhappycamper]

Originally Posted by mollysmiles

The people of Bar Harbor believe that Cadillac Mountain receive the first rays of sun....there was such a huge issue that the news feeds all (the major 3 plus CNN, Fox, and a couple of others I can't remember) were there for the sunrise January 1, 2000....and then 4 were sent to Eastport as well.

I have also heard that on top of Mars Hill gives you the first view of the sunset in America.

[Bewitched]

LOL...thought these were too funny...

In Portland, it is illegal for men to tickle women under the chin with feather dusters.

The most money one can legally win gambling is three dollars.

It Rumford, it is illegal for a tenant to bite his/her landlord.

In Waterville, it is illegal to blow one's nose in public.

[island mermaid]

There it is right there.... all of the reasons of why I'm now in the witness protection program. Guilty as charged!

[mollysmiles]

Originally Posted by Unhappycamper

I have also heard that on top of Mars Hill gives you the first view of the sunset in America.

I'd forgotten that but you're right....I remember that!

and now that I've said that I need trivia....hmmmm


1775 First Naval Battle of the Revolutionary War is fought in Machias Bay. Forty colonists capture the English warship Margaretta......(no I didn't know that I had to look it up! )

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Bewitched

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8. Aroostook County at 6,453 square miles covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island. ...

Wow!

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Bewitched

8. Aroostook County at 6,453 square miles covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

This one is actually a bit wrong. The land area is actually just a touch over 6,671 square miles. In 2006 the census bureau put the population at 73,008 people. I was taken by surprise when I first moved there at how huge an area one county encompassed. What is even more amazing is that the population is all along a narrow strip on the East side of that big of an area.

[mensaguy]

S. L. Wadsworth's is the nation's oldest ship chandlery and Maine's oldest retail business. I thought I had read that it was the oldest retail store in the country, but I can't find that information right now.

[msina]

With 150,000 members in 1920, Maine possessed the largest, most active Ku Klux Klan outside of the south. This group targeted the Franco-Americans rather than the African Americans, because they were Catholic, different than the people that were already in Maine. They were scared that the number of these people would become so large that they would take over Maine. Klan members would include 1 out of every 10 English-speaking Mainers. Businessmen, bankers, ministers, politicians, and newspaper editors were the main starters of this Klan. Milo, Maine was where the first Ku Klux Klan march was held in the broad daylight.

The Ku Klux Klan in Maine


http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=1264

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by The Mysterious Lady

That's interesting. I had no idea about Cadillac Mountain.

I wonder if the issue was ever officially solved. I wish it would be since so many places list incorrect "facts". Like school teachers who teach that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be seen from the moon ... of course that is not true at all, no man-made structure on earth can be seen from the moon. But the myth abounds anyway.

Previously,the only man made structure that could be seen from orbit WAS the Great wall of China. Since then there have been some manmade islands built off the coast of Japan and Dubai that can be seen from orbit. You're right the moon is too far from earth for anyone on the moon to descern any relief features.