The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-07-16
Colony Established on Pine
Trees Shore Before Land
81. ing Of Pilgrims.
STATE HOLDS CELEBRATION
Coast First Visited by John Cabot In
14s8-Maine 8Iazed Path to Ma.
ttonai Prohibition - Produced
Many Men Of Note. Z


Portland Me.-One hundred years
ago Maine became state OF the Union.
and this year the event Is to be official
ly observed with a great celebration.
the principal feature of which will take
place,at Portland from June % to July
9. TIE
While Maine Is only Century old rs
state, in reality the territory was one
Of the first settled sections of North
America. A colony had been estab-
llshed on its shores 16 years before
the pilgrims landed at Plymouth,
Mass, in 1620. The Maine coast bar
ring, Of course, possible discovery by
the early Norsemen was first visited,
II is believed, by John Cabot the Eng
fish explorer, in LADS. 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 French commission, crused
along the coast. In 1925 Spaniard,
Gomez, discovered and named the Pc
nobscot river Rio de las Gomez, or Stag
river, ana In 1528, the French explorer
Thevet visited the territory and re-
turned to Europe with a story of Mo-
rumbega, Names mythical city.
1t was In 1865 that the renowned son
Of Great Britain, Sir John Hawkins,
came to Maine, and two years later
three; survivors Of his second expedi-
ton crossed Its interior, the first white
men TO VISIT any part of the present
state away from the coast line. In
1902 Captain Bartholomew Gosnold ex-
plOred Its southwestern shore, and In
1908 Capt. Martin Pring, a British
trader discovered Casco bay, on which
is now located the city of Portland, r
- First Settlement.
The premier attempt at settlement
was made in 1904 by Sieur de Monts.
the famous French explorer. who es-
tablished the first colony I'd what Is
now the United States. north Of Florl-
da, within the borders of the present
state of Maine, on Neutral island in
the ST. Croix river near what h now
the city of Calais. The renowned
.Chafrplaln was member of the party
and crulsed along the Maine coast as
far east as the Kennel s river, naming
Mount Desert island. After terrible
year. In which the majority Of the
party. died from exposure and disease
the colony was obliged to give up Its
existence. S&sli4y .Ft II l,ti
In 1907, the first English colony was
established at Popham, at the mouth
of the Kennebec river. by George Pop
ham. This and the colony Of JAMES
town. Va, founded the same year. were
the frst English settlements on the
Atlantic coast. The little group. how
ever, after the death of Its founder
was obliged to abandon the site. The
: colony. however, established one not
able record, for II constructed, durlns
It's year of suffering. the Virginia, tn
first vessel to be built m North Amer
fca. ~
In 1913. the French Jesults organ
lied Amlssion on Mount Desert island
and 70 1914 the coast OF Maine was
visIted by Capt. John Smith OF Poca
hontas fame, who made the first re
bl63map Of II and named many Of
its principal points. including Cape
Elizabeth. He was the first to apply
the name New England, to this north
easterh SEXTON Of the United States
Only three yenrs after the landlns
of the'Pilgims Capt Christopher Ley