Oct 17, Maine and Plymouth were incorporated in Massachusetts. In Canada the Accadians of Nova Scotia were uprooted by an English governor and forced to leave. Some 10,000 people moved to destinations like Maine and Louisiana. 1807 Feb 27, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born in Portland, Maine. The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself.
Time is the Life of the soul.
1820 Mar 15, Maine became the 23rd state. Aged 45 yrs. One Wood Within another. The Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River was constructed. It was broken open in 1999 to allow fish upstream.