View from Cadillac Mountain on Mount Desert Island within Acadia National Park, Maine.
24/7 Maine Strategic Prayer Call
Date and Time: Thur / 8 PM ET
Coordinator: Suzanne Bauer
Phone: 717-908-1986
Code: 861362 #
About Maine
Maine is the easternmost US state, situated in the northeastern part of the country, bordering Canada. It is also the northernmost of the six New England states.
Maine borders the Canadian provinces of Québec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the north and northeast. The state borders the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Maine) to the southeast and the US state of New Hampshire in the southwest. The state’s nickname is “The Pine Tree State;”the destination-marketing organization for the United States promotes Maine as “Vacationland.”
Short history
The region was visited by John Cabot (an Italian navigator under the commission of Henry VII of England) in 1498 and colonized by England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Maine was originally part of Massachusetts. The district was included in the Charter of New England in 1620 and the Charter of Massachusetts Bay in 1629, which became the Constitution of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the predecessor to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In 1819, Massachusetts agreed to allow its district of Maine to petition for statehood. Maine was admitted to the Union as a separate state on 15th March 1820 as the 23rd state.
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