The Crittenden press., 1920-07-02
Colony Established on Pine
Trees Shore Before Land.
ing Of Pilgrims.
STATE HOLDS CELEBRATION
Coast First Visited by John Cabot In
f4e9-Maine Bla1ed Path TO Ma.
tional Prohibition - Produced
Many Men OF Note.

Portland Me.-One hundred ycnrs
ago Main" became n state Of the Union.
and this year the event is 10 be- Official
ly observed with a great celebration.
the principal feature Of which will take
place nj Portland from June ~ 10 July
3.
While Maine Is only century old ns
a state. In reality the territory was one
~ The FIRST settled sections Of North
America. A colony had been rsinh.
l,shrd ON lis shores 10 years before
the pilgrims lnnded NJ Plymouth.
Mass. In ld2O. The Maine consi hnr.
ring. Of course, possible discovery by
The early Norscmen. was first visited.
II IN believed. by John Cabot. the Eng
llsh explorer. In li0S. only six years
after the discovery NJ the new world
by Columbus In 1901 the Portuguese
explorer tnrie Real. came 10 Maine,
and In 1874 Nnrmzano. IN italian. salt.
Ing under French commission. crulscd
nlong the con~i. In 1873 Spnnlard.
Gomez. discovered and named the Pc.
nobscoi river Rio de- las Gomez or Stag
river, and IN 1926 the French explorer
Thcvet visited the territory and re-
turned 10 Europe with story Of Mo
runhcen Mnlnc's mythical city.
II was IN 1875 that the renowned son
of Great Britain SIR John Hawkins.
came TO Maine and two years later
three survivors NJ his second rNpcdl.
ilnn crossed III Interior. he first white
men to visit any pnri ~ the present
sinrc nwny from the coast line In
iGd2 Captain Bartholomew Gosnold ex.
pored lis southwestern shore. md IN
IGoS Cnpt. Mnrtln prlnr, British
trader discovered Cnsco hay On which
Is now located the city NJ Portland.
First Settlement
The premier attempt NJ settlement
wns made IN lGni by Sieur de Monts,
the famous French explorer, who 90.
tnhlished the first colony In what Ia
now the United 'tntps. north NJ Florl.
dn. within the borders NJ the present
state ~ Maine, IN Neutral island In
the ~. CrolN river near what j. now
the city ~ Calais, The renowned
Cmmplnin WIS n member ~ the party
and crulscd nlour the Maine coast ms
fnr cnsi Ms the Krnnchcc river naming
Mount Desert island After terrible
year. In which the majority of the
purity died from exposure and disease,
the colony was Obliged to give up It's
existence,
In 1907. the first English colony was
established ~ pophnm. at the mouth
of the kennrhcc river by George Pop.
hnm This md the colony of James.
town, Va, founded the same year were
the first English settlements on the
Atlantic coast The little group. how.
ever. nficr the death ~ lis founder.
wnS obliged io abandon the site The
colony, however, established onc not
able record. for n constructed. during
It's year of suffering, the Virginia. the
first vessel tn be built In North Amer
lea.
In 1914. the French lcsrlts organ.
lycd n mission nm Mount Desert island
nnd In 1911 the cnnSi NJ Maine was
visited nv Capt John Smith NJ roca.
honlns fame. who made the first re-.
liable mnp " II nnd named many NJ
Us principal points, Including Crpc
Elizabeth. lie wns The first to nrnly
the nnmc New England to this norti'
eastern Scci'on NJ the United States.
only three ycnrS after The lending
of the pilgrims Capt Christopher l.rv.
EFT rsinhl' shed n trading posi- on one
~ the islands now within the limits
of Portland mud In lGl2 The fnundn.
,lons " the present city were csinh.
llshrd hy George Clcrvc nnd iil"hnrd
Tucker Previous in this. however
I'm iGas. settlements had been mnh'