The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-25
Colony Established on Pine
Trees Shore Before Land
ing Of Pilgrims.
STATE HOLDS CELEBRATION
Coast First Waited by John Cabot In
i4se-Mains elaxed Path to Ma
tionaI Prohibition - Produced
Many Men 81 Note.

WS0y wen OF Noyo.
Portland Me.-One hundred years
ago Maine became q State of the Union,
and this year the event is to be Official
ly observed with great celebration.
the principal feature Of which will take
place ut Portland from June % to July
s.
While Maine Is only a century old as
a state, in reality the territory was one
of the frst settled sections Of North
America. A colony had been estab-
lished ON its shores 16 years before
the pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Mass, In 1890. The Maine coast, bar
ring, Of course. possible discovery By
the early Norsemen, was first visited.
It Is believed, by John Cabot. the Eng
fish explorer, In 1893, only six years
after the discovery Of the new world
by Columbus In 1901 the Portuguese
explorer Corte- Real, came to Maine,
and in 1924 varrazano, an Italian, sail
ing under a French commission, cruised
along the coast. In 1925 Spaniard,
| Gomez, discovered and named the Pc.
| nobscot river Rio de las Gomez, or Stag
| river, and in 1926 the French explorer
Thevet visited the territory and re
turned to Europe with a story Of Mo
rumbega. Names mythical city.
It was in 1855 that the renowned sol
Of Great Britain, Sir John Hawkins
| ka nd ksx,C vyo<a n m,
three survivors Of his second expedi
ton crossed its interior, the first Whit
men to visit any part Of the presen
state away from the coast line. Il
1902 Captain Bartholomew Gosnold ex
plored it's southwestern shore, and Il
1908 Capt. Martin Pring, a Britisl
trader discovered Casco bay, on whlcl
10 now located the city Of Portland.
First Settlement.
The premier attempt at settlement
was made in 1904 by Sieur de Mont.
the famous French explorer. who e.
tablished the first colony in what
now the United States, north Of Flor
d., within the borders Of the preser
state of Maine, on Neutral island
the St. Croix river, near what Is no
the city Of Calais. The renOwne
Champlain was member Of the part
and cruised along the Maine coast {
far east as the Kennebec river namir
Mount Desert island. After terrib
J. year. in which the majority Of Il
party died from exposure and diseas
the colony was obliged to give up
existence.
!. In 1907, the first English colony W
!. established at Popham. at the mou
3 Of the Kennebec river. by George Pc
Il ham. This and the colony Of jaime
4 town, Va, founded the same year we
% the first English settlements ON t
% Atlantic coast. The little group. no
y ever, after the death Of Its found
I. was obliged to abandon the site. T
. colony, however. established one n
ID able record, for II constructed. duri
IT. year Of suffering, the Virginia.
% flBt vessel to be built In North Am
b. ica.
10 In 1913. the French Jes,iits org,
g. NED mission on Mount Desert iSla
Is and in 1914 the coast Of Maine "
y. visited By Capt. John Smith Of Pc
~ hontas fame, who made the first
hn llable map Of It and named many
Z Ito principal points. Including c,
- Elizabeth. He was the flrst to ap
ct the name New England to this nor
lie eastern section Of the United Sta
IS Only three years after the land
70. Of the Pilgrims Capt. Christopher
ayf EFT established a trading post on
ut Of the islands now within the lin
tly Of Portland. and In 1852 the fonn
ct lions Of the present city were est
II lished by George Cleeve and Rich
Tucker. Previous to this howe
N lo2e settlements had been m