The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-07-17
|coIony Established on Pine
/ Trees Shore Before Land
ing of Pilgrims.
State HOLDS CELEBRATION
Coast First Visited by John Cabot in
14es-Maine BIazed Path to Ma
tionaI Prohibition - Produced
Many Men of Note.

n Portland Me.-One hundred years
| ago Maine became state of the Union,
Eand this year the event is to be official
LIZ observed with a great celebration,
/ the principal feature Of which will take
place at Portland from June % to July
s.
While Maine is only a century old as
Ia state. in reality the territory was one
Of the first settled sections of North
America A colony had been estab-
lished on its shores 16 years before
Il the pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Mass, in 1920. The Maine coast. bar
ring, Of course, possible discovery by
the early Norsemen, was first visited,
1t is believed, by John Cabot, the Eng
lish 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 q French commission, cruised
along the coast. In 1926 a Spaniard,
Gomez, discovered and named the re-
nobscot river Rio de las Gomez, or Stag
river. and in 1926 the French explorer
Thevet visited the territory ana re-
turned to Europe with 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 iater
three survivors of his second expedi-
ton crossed its interior, the first Whl'e
men to visit any part Of the present
state away from the coast line. III
1902 Captain Bartholomew Gosnoin eA-
plored its southwestern shore. and IN
1903 Capt Martin Pring a British
trader discovered Casco bay, on WHICH
Is now located the city of Portland.
First Settlement.
The premier attempt at settlefheh'
was made In 1904 by Sieur de Moh's'
the famous French explorer, who es-
tablished the first colony in what Is
now the United States, norm OF fioi :
da. within the borders of the pfeseh
state of Maine, on Neutral isiaho II
the ST. Croix river, near whaf II ho"
the civ of Calais. The renowned
Cbamnlain was member of the party
and cruised along the Maine coast =.
far east as the Kennebec river nain,i,s
Mount Desert island. After a terrible
. year. in which the maJofit! o. Wy
partv died from exposure and disease
the COLONY was obliged TO give up ~
existence. SO,
In 1907. the first English colony W.. ~,
established at Popham, at the mou''
Of the Kennebec river, by ueo.r
ham This and the colony OF James
town va. founded the same year We.
tbe first English settlements Oh -
Atlantic coast The little group nov
ovor after fine death Of its founue'
was obliged to abandon the si'e' -,
colony. however, established one ~
4 ablo record. for it constructed au'n'
;ts wear of suffering, the slrgliia' =.
first vessel TO be built In Nor'h
lea. ...- orcar
In 1918. the French Jes'n's orr" IT,
,zed a mission on Mount Desert '
o,d IN 1914 the coast of Maine v"
visited nv Capt. John Smith OF ~, =.
hontas fame. who made the nrss : :
liable map of it and named in"n Cor
its principal points. including ami n"l
EIizahefh. He was the mrs. 10 "p rt,
tho name New England to THIS no.,'
eostern section Of the United ela ,..,
on,v three years after the 'a'I, =,
of the Pilgrims Capt. chris'"ph+ ~ or
cit established trading pos. vi ,,,o,t
9, the islands now within the nm,
OF Q, p 1ne ls and In 1852 the f'und
tons of the present city VIZ n,cha,
lished by George cleeve anu ,omeye
Tucker. Previous TO this. nc non" ma,
in 1e2s, settlements had oee'