SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: Moose Hunt; Arnold's Expedition through the Wilderness in 1775; The Early Explorers off the Coast of Maine.
SIZE: 3" x 5"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Good, I'd say. This card is only lightly soiled with slightly worn edges and rounded corners. However, the back has two patches of surface paper loss and a small surface tear, likely due to prior scrapbook mounting. There are also small creases in the left and bottom edges. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: MAINE.
THE Norsemen are said to have visited Maine in 996 and 1008, and many believe that they did. Cortereal, Verrazona, Gomez and others sailed down the Gulf of Maine before 1530; and in 1605 Weymouth set up crosses at Mohegan and Pentecost Harbor to claim the land for England. In 1614 Capt. John Smith ranged the coast in an open boat from the Penobscot to Cape Cod.
The partisan warfare of D'Aulnay and La Tour; the settlement of the Baron de St. Castin on Penobscot Bay; the forays of the Indian chieftains, Mogg, Megone and Madocawando; and the Jesuit missions and crusades, have touched this iron-bound coast with the halo of romance, and furnished themes for the poems of Longfellow and Whittier.
During the long struggles with the French and Indians, Maine suffered dreadfully. Only five settlements remained at the close of King Philip's War, and in the first French War every town east of Wells went down.
In 1775 Benedict Arnold led the unfortunate expedition through the wilderness to Quebec. Maine separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a part, and entered the Union in 1820. The Aroostook War, in 1837-39, arose from boundary disputes between Maine and New Brunswick, and the borders were garrisoned by regulars and local militia under General Scott.
The famous "Maine Law" policy, begun in 1846 and 1851, imposes severe penalties on the manufacture, selling or drinking of intoxicating liquors. It has not suppressed the evils, but has abated them.
