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A flat-bottomed double-ended boat river drivers used to help free log jams.
What is a bateau?
In 1869 this was completed, allowing travel from coast to coast in the US to be completed in 1 week instead of the 100 days it previously took.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
A woman who helps other women deliver babies.
What is a midwife?
This church was built in 1828 by the black community in Portland after they became fed up with their treatment in white churches.
What is the Abyssinian Church?
The first step in building a ship's hull is stretching this part, the backbone of the ship.
What is the keel?
The bench in lumber camps where men would sit to smoke, tell stories and sing songs.
What is a deacon's seat?
Cutting people to let blood drain, onions applied to the feet, and drinking salt and water to make a person vomit are all examples of this.
What are medical practices?
One of America's most celebrated poets and a Portland native. He wrote poems that immortalized people like Paul Revere and Miles Standish.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Built in 1867, this was the first Catholic Church in Lewiston.
What is St. Joseph's Catholic Church?
Having begun shipbuilding in the mid 1800's this shipbuilder has adjusted to the changing demands and continues to be nationally recognized for the ships it builds.
What is Bath Iron Works?
This man said of Bangor that it stands "like a star on the edge of night" when he passed through it on his way to climb Mount Katahdin in 1847.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
A party starting with a supper followed by dancing that all took place following the raising of a church or barn is an example of this.
What is a work party?
This group was comprised of enraged squatters or settlers who believed they were fighting for their freedom to own American land. They disguised themselves and attacked land agents along the Maine frontier.
Who were the "White Indians"?
Built in Lewiston in 1872, this parish was the first in Maine to hold Mass in French.
What is Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church?
This type of ship was the type most American shipbuilders built. They were built with many sails and narrow hulls for speed.
What is a clipper ship?
The paper industry today remains one of Maine's largest manufacturing industries and paper companies own about this much of Maine's forestland. (acres or percentage)
What is 7 million acres or 40%?
Following the Revolutionary War, the Maine frontier became known as this, with 244,000 new settlers arriving between 1783 and 1820.
What is "the land of promise"?
This group of businessmen claimed to be heirs to a royal British charter from the early 1600's, making them owners of a large percentage of Maine land.
Who were the Kennebec Proprieters?
Those who believed that immigrants were threatening the unity and stability of the US did this to both the Lincoln Street Church and the Old South Meeting House in Bath.
What is burn them down?
Maine shipbuilders came up with this design for a ship with fewer sails and a wider hull specifically for carrying heavy loads.
What is the Down-Easter?
One of the first sawmills in North America was built in Maine on this river in 1631.
What is Salmon Falls River?
In 1821 Portland opened this, the first one in the state of Maine and only the second in the country.
What is a public high school?
Although he started life in poverty, this Penobscot Indian was able to go to school because of his mother's letter in 1840. He became a journalist and eventually a tribal representative in the Maine legislature. He wrote the book The Life and Traditions of the Red Man before his death in 1893.
Who is Joseph Nicola?
The religious movement in the years after the Revolution marked by traveling preachers from many different Christian faiths was called this.
What is the New Light Stir?
One of the first European ships built in North America was built in Maine, this ship was built in 1607 by settlers of Popham Colony.