Nathan Clifford Ricker, architect and professor at the University of Illinois
Albion
Notable People
Edward Sturgis Ingraham, educator and mountaineer, helped establish Mount Rainier National Park.
Elijah P. Lovejoy (1802–1837), abolitionist and editor of the Alton Observer.
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864), brother of Elijah, Congregational clergyman, abolitionist, and congressman from Illinois.
Alfred
A Shaker religious community once thrived in Alfred - Alfred Shaker Village in particular was noted for "spiritualistic healing of the sick." It was also where Elder Joseph Brackett wrote the famous 1848 Shaker dancing song, Simple Gifts.
Notable People
Joseph Brackett, songwriter and Shaker elder.[citation needed]
Joshua Herrick, congressman.
John Holmes, senator.
Alna
Notable People
Fred H. Albee, surgeon.
John T. Averill, congressman.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
Telstar 1
Andover
Andover is the birthplace of brothers railway pioneer John A. Poor (1808–1871) and Henry Varnum Poor (1812–1905) of Standard & Poor's.
In 1960, Andover was selected to be site of the Andover Earth Station, completed in 1962.
It was the location of the first live transatlantic television signal broadcast by satellite Telstar 1.
Atkinson
Notable People
Edward Bunker, Mormon pioneer, founded Bunkerville, Nevada.
Augusta
Notable People
Ambrose Abbott, member of the Maine Legislature.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State and presidential nominee.
Horatio Bridge, navy officer.
Melville Fuller, Illinois politician.
George Huntington Hartford, businessman.
John F. Hill, Maine governor.
Robert Deniston Hume, Oregon politician and businessman.
Eastman Johnson, artist.
George W. Ladd, congressman.
Dorianne Laux, poet.
Rachel Nichols, actress.
Frederick G. Payne, Maine politician.
David Peoples, athlete and golfer.
John F. Potter, congressman, judge.
Luther Severance, publisher, congressman and senator.
Olympia Snowe, senator (Republican-Maine).
John L. Stevens, United States Minister to Kingdom of Hawaii, accused of attempting to overthrow Hawaiian Queen, 1893.
Manch Wheeler, football player.
Reuel Williams, Maine politician.
Willard G. Wyman, military officer (General).
Avon
Notable People
Joshua Soule, bishop for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Zebulon York, Civil War era general.
Fanshawe (1828) — This Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, published only three years after his graduation from Bowdoin, is set at a small college which bears a striking resemblance to his alma mater. "Morituri Salutamus" (1875) — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this poem for his 50th Bowdoin reunion, and recited it on that occasion. One famous passage recalls the College: "O ye familiar scenes,—ye groves of pine / That once were mine and are no longer mine, — / Thou river, widening through the meadows green / To the vast sea, so near and yet unseen, — / Ye halls, in whose seclusion and repose / Phantoms of fame, like exhalations, rose / And vanished,—we who are about to die / Salute you; earth and air and sea and sky / And the Imperial Sun that scatters down / His sovereign splendors upon grove and town." [35] Broken Arrow (1950) — This Golden Globe Award-winning film starring James Stewart featured Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850 as a prominent character. M*A*S*H (1968, 1970) — In both the book and film, the character Hawkeye Pierce is said to have played football at Androscoggin College, a fictional school based on the alma mater of author H. Richard Hornberger, Bowdoin class of 1945. The Killer Angels (1975) — This historical novel by Michael Shaara, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, focuses in large part on the role played by Bowdoin graduate and professor Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Battle of Gettysburg.Glory (1989) — Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837 is a character in this film about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Gettysburg (1993) — In this movie based on The Killer Angels, there is at least one reference to character Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as having had an academic career at Bowdoin, which he put aside to lead the 20th Maine. The Man Without a Face (1993) — Parts of this movie were filmed on campus. The Cider House Rules (1994) — In this John Irving novel, a Bowdoin-educated doctor forges a Bowdoin diploma for a young protégé. The Sopranos (1999) — In an episode entitled "College," Tony Soprano and his daughter Meadow visit Colby, where Tony kills a former associate, and Bowdoin, where he reads an inscription paraphrasing Hawthorne's warning that "no man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." [36] Tony's daughter is ultimately rejected from Bowdoin and ends up attending Columbia. The episode was not filmed on Bowdoin's campus, but was filmed at Drew University in New Jersey. Where the Heart Is (2000) — The main character in this movie falls in love with a Bowdoin man. The film, which has a scene "at Bowdoin," is based on a novel of the same name. Gods and Generals (2003) — This film, based on a historical novel of the same name, is a prequel to Gettysburg. Kinsey (2004) — Biopic about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, includes a scene in which his father opposes his decision to transfer to Bowdoin. The Aviator (2004) — 1909 Bowdoin grad and U.S. Senator Owen Brewster plays a major role in this Howard Hughes biopic. Grey's Anatomy (2008) — Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd is canonically a Bowdoin grad. Catamount, A North Country Thriller (2008) — A thriller that takes place in the North Country of New Hampshire. Two fly fishermen who fall victim to a rogue mountain lion were roommates at Bowdoin. The novel was written by Rick Davidson, class of 1969. Mad Men (2009) — In the season three episode entitled "Wee Small Hours," a Bowdoin t-shirt is worn by character Suzanne Farrell. The Good Wife (2009) — In the first scene of an episode entitled "Crash" a character introduces a new assistant, listing "Bowdoin 2005, summa cum laude" among her credentials. Tinkers (2009)— In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Paul Harding, one of the characters, Gilbert, is a semi-legendary literary figured that graduated from Bowdoin and is rumored to been one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classmates The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe while she was living in Brunswick because her husband was a professor at Bowdoin. She got a key vision for the book in the First Parish Church. A scene in the 1993 movie The Man Without a Face was filmed in the town
Notable People
Gorham Dummer Abbot, clergyman and teacher.[citation needed]
John Stevens Cabot Abbott, clergyman and author
Dale Arnold, sportscaster and radio personality.[citation needed]
Corey Beaulieu, musician.
Josh Casaubon, actor.
Fanny Chamberlain, wife of Joshua Chamberlain.
Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War era general and 32nd governor of Maine.
Robert P. T. Coffin, poet.
Robert P. Dunlap, congressman, 11th governor of Maine.
Charles Carroll Everett, theologian.
John Gould, reporter, columnist.
Frederic Aldin Hall, professor, school chancellor.
Joshua Herrick, congressman.
Graeme K., musician.
Angus King, 72nd governor of Maine.
Stump Merrill, baseball player.
Will Montgomery, football player.
Benjamin Orr, congressman.
Alpheus Spring Packard, professor.
George Palmer Putnam, publisher.
Mark Rogers, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist, author.
Jeff Thisted, game show host.[citation needed]
Billy Price, main character in Jennifer Venditti's Documentary Billy the Kid(2007 film)
Buckfield
Notable People
William Berry, soldier.
John Lewis Childs, horticulturist, N.Y. state senator, founder of Floral Park, New York.
Patrick Dempsey, actor.
Fritz Grobe, professional juggler and co-founder of Eepybird (the "Diet Coke and Mentos Guys").
Ray Lamontagne, singer and songwriter.
John Davis Long, Secretary of the Navy, 32nd governor of Massachusetts.
Mark Musashi, martial artist, stuntman, actor.
Virgil D. Parris, congressman.
Thomas Phelps, naval officer.
Charles H. Prince, congressman.
Albion Woodbury Small, sociologist and educator.
Seba Smith, humorist and writer.
Stephen Voltz, attorney and co-founder of Eepybird (the "Diet Coke and Mentos Guys").
Bucksport
Notable People
Carl Darling Buck, noted philologist.
Dustin Farnum, actor.[citation needed]
William Farnum, actor.[citation needed]
Frank Fellows, congressman.
Edward Winslow Hinks, Civil War era general.
Molly Kool, America's first registered female ship captain.
Buxton
Notable People
John Brewster Jr., artist.
Mark H. Dunnell, congressman.
Alanson M. Kimball, congressman.
Gibeon Bradbury, painter.
Julia Spencer-Fleming, author.
Buxton in popular culture - In the movie, The Shawshank Redemption (based on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Maine native Stephen King), Buxton is the site of the rock wall where Red goes after being released from prison to retrieve a message from his friend Andy Dufresne, who escaped from prison a few years earlier
Camden
Among the movies set here have been Carousel (1956), Peyton Place (1957) and In the Bedroom (2001). In Carousel, the harbor can be seen in the distance during the sequence in which Mrs. Mullin, the carousel owner, confronts Julie (Shirley Jones) and Carrie (Barbara Ruick) after Julie has taken a ride on the merry-go-round. The soap opera Passions uses Camden for shots depicting the fictional town Harmony. Camden was the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who wrote her first major work, "Renascence," there in 1912.
The town is home to The Camden Conference, an annual public affairs conference held in February.
Also, the Pop!Tech conference takes place each fall.
During the second weekend of February, the annual U.S. National Toboggan Championships are held at the town-owned Camden Snow Bowl
Notable People
Kay Aldridge, model, actress.
Tim Boetsch, martial artist.
Gordon Bok, singer and songwriter.
David G. Conover, documentary film and television director.
William Conway, navy quartermaster.
Jeremiah W. Farnham, sea captain.
Tess Gerritsen, novelist.
Joseph Hall, congressman.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet.
Richard Russo, novelist.
Ephraim K. Smart, congressman.
Don McLean, singer and songwriter.
Canton
Notable People
Cornelius Holland, congressman.
Stephany Stanley, Miss Maine (1998).
John P. Swasey, congressman
Bette Davis
Cape Elizabeth
Cape Elizabeth is the location of the Beach to Beacon 10-kilometer road race that starts at Crescent Beach State Park (the "beach") and ends at Portland Head Light (the "beacon"). This road race attracts world-renowned runners and was founded by 1984 Olympics marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson who grew up in Cape Elizabeth
Notable People
Bette Davis, actress.[citation needed]
John Ford, film director.
Dorothy Bush Koch, sister of former President George W. Bush.[citation needed]
Gary Merrill, actor.[citation needed]
Joan Benoit Samuelson, marathon runner.
Carmel
A 19th century Methodist preacher named George Higgins founded a local faith healing sect here called the "Higginsites", which advocated whipping children in order to 'drive out the Devil'. Higgens was himself eventually tarred, feathered, and driven out of town.[3]
Notable People
Myrna Fahey (1933-1973), actress.
Carrabassset Valley
Carrabassett Valley is home to Sugarloaf/USA, a major ski resort and ski and snowboard academy, Carrabassett Valley Academy
Kennebunkport is known as the location of the summer home of former U.S. president George H. W. Bush, father of former U.S. president George W. Bush. First built by Bush's grandfather George Herbert Walker, it has been a family home ever since, and has been owned by Bush since shortly after he became Vice President in the 1980s. During his presidency, Bush often invited world leaders, from Margaret Thatcher to Mikhail Gorbachev, to Kennebunkport. In 2007, his son George W. Bush invited Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Sarkozy. The Bush compound is on Walkers Point
Notable people
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States.
Dan Goodwin, building, rock, and sports climber.
Kingfield
Kingfield is the principal gateway to Sugarloaf, a major ski resort, and is headquarters to Maine Huts and Trails.
Notable People
William King, first governor of Maine.[citation needed]
Francis E. Stanley, inventor, businessman.
Freelan O. Stanley, inventor, businessman.
Kittery
Home to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey's Island, Kittery includes Badger's Island, the seaside district of Kittery Point, and part of the Isles of Shoals.
During the Revolution, the first vessels of the U.S. Navy were constructed on Badger's Island, including the 1777 USS Ranger commanded by John Paul Jones.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the nation's first federal navy yard, was established in 1800 on Fernald's Island. It connects to the mainland by two bridges. The facility rebuilt the USS Constitution, and built the Civil War USS Kearsarge. Seavey's Island was annexed and became site of the now defunct Portsmouth Naval Prison.
Notable People
William Badger, master shipbuilder.
John Haley Bellamy, woodcarver, folk artist.
George Berry, captain, shipbuilder.
Dennis C. Blair, admiral.
Scott Brown, senator from Massachusetts (2010–present).
Tunis Craven, naval officer.
Shem Drowne, metalworker, creator of Boston's Grasshopper Weathervane.
Monique Edwards, actress.
William Dean Howells, writer, magazine editor.[citation needed]
Sandi Jackson, Chicago city alderman.
Jeremiah O'Brien, naval officer.
John O'Hurley, television actor.
Sir William Pepperrell, merchant, soldier.
Randy Price, newscaster.
Arthur Shawcross, serial killer.
Hunt Slonem, artist.
Celia Thaxter, poet.
John Treworgie, last Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland.
William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Katahdin
Millinocket
Mount Katahdin (/kəˈtɑːdɪn/ kə-TAH-din) is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at 5,269 feet (1,606 m). Named Katahdin, which means "Great Mountain",[3] by the Penobscot Native Americans, it is within Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County, and is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park. It is a steep, tall massif formed from a granite intrusion weathered to the surface. The flora and fauna on the mountain are typical of those found in northern New England.
Notable people
Herbert E. Clark, state legislator
Harry A. Corey, entrepreneur, Canadian politician
Joseph John Gerry OSB, Bishop of Portland until 2004
Mary Kathryn Gonya, Miss Maine (1966)
Jane Harragan, Miss Maine (1950)
Mike Michaud, former member of the United States House of Representatives
Andrew St. John, actor
Joe Whalen, tennis player
Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach is home to the first carousel in the United States, Noah's Ark, a kid-friendly, boat-shaped funhouse with hand-carved figures of Noah and his family, was designed to provide an exciting but not frightening experience for a 5-year-old.
Orland
Notable People
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971), author, best known for the novel The Oxbow Incident
In August 1940 (around the 13th) the English composer Benjamin Britten completed his Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21 while staying at the Owl's Head Inn—coincidentally meeting up with Kurt Weill with whom he got on well. On August 22 he wrote from Owl's Head to Elizabeth Mayer: "We eventually made Pemaquid Point, but found the place most disappointing—not on the sea, & full of the most terrible Bostonian old ladies, that we left after one gloomy night. Then we came on here which is a grand spot—very unpretentious—but quiet & right on the sea. We can work & there are tennis courts nearby. It is too cold to bathe unfortunately—but there is plenty else to do...."
Owls Head was a filming location for the 2001 movie In the Bedroom.
Pembroke
Notable People
Charles H. Best, medical scientist Styles Bridges, teacher, editor and Governor of New Hampshire
William Robinson Pattangall, Maine Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court
Peru
Samuel Thurston, first delegate from Oregon Territory
Phillips
Notable People
Carroll L. Beedy, congressman
Minnie D. Craig, legislator
Ray LaMontagne, musician
John P. Soule, photographer and publisher
C. J. Stevens, writer
Augustus Stinchfield, physician
Pittsfield
Pittsfield is home to the Maine Central Institute, a private boarding school, and the annual Central Maine Egg Festival
Notable Alumni:
Caron Butler, professional basketball player
Sam Cassell, retired professional basketball player
DerMarr Johnson, professional basketball player
Brad Miller, professional basketball player
Orrin Larrabee Miller, U.S. Congressman from Kansas
Cuttino Mobley, professional basketball player
Mamadou N'diaye, professional basketball player
Bob Pickett, lauded college football head coach
Notable People
Carl Milliken, governor
Llewellyn Powers, governor
Arthur Millett (1874-1952) was a silent screen actor who appeared in 119 films between 1914 and 1940. His last two roles (both 1940) were in Three Faces West with John Wayne and Deadwood Dick with Barbara Stanwyck
Pittston
Notable People
Albert G. Jewett (b. 1802 in Pittston) was U.S. Chargé d'Affaires (ambassador) to Peru in 1845-47
Poland
Popular culture
Two episodes of the popular 1960s television series U.S. Route 66 were filmed in Poland: "Come out, Come out, Wherever you are" (1963) starring Lon Chaney, Jr.; and "Same Picture, Different Frame" (1963) starring Joan Crawford, Tom Bosley, and Patrick O'Neal[3]
Porter
Notable People
Harry Lord, baseball player
Pownal
Pownal was chosen by author Stephen King as the hometown of schoolteacher Johnny Smith, protagonist of the 1979 novel The Dead Zone. King grew up in neighboring Durham.
Prospect
The most prominent landmark in Prospect is Fort Knox, a large 19th-century fort. It is now a major tourist attraction, as is the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory.
Notable People
Joseph Plumb Martin, teenage Revolutionary War soldier and witness to most of its major events
Freeman McGilvery, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg
Ephraim K. Smart, congressman
Rangeley
Notable People
Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist
Kurt Russell,[2] actor
Patrick Dempsey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Raymond
Notable People
Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
Kirstin Clark, Three-time Olympic (1998, 2002, 2006) Ski Racer: US Ski Team Profile
Redfield
Notable People
Christian Duguay, comic actor
John Hubbard, physician & governor
Jonathan G. Hunton, governor
Anson P. Morrill, governor & congressman
Richmond
Notable People
De Alva S. Alexander, journalist, lawyer & congressman
Walter A. Burleigh, physician & congressman
George Hamilton-Gordon, Scottish peer and sailor
A little known fact about Richmond is that it was once the epicenter of the largest Russian-speaking settlement in the United States. People of Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish heritage emigrated to the US during WWII to settle along the Kennebec Valley.
Robbinston
Notable People
Laurence Trimble (1885-1954) was born in Robbinston. He was one of the leading film directors for the Vitaphone Co. between 1910 and 1926, ultimately directing 101 silent films. He also owned and trained the film-acting dog Strongheart, the first canine film star, whom he directed in such films as White Fang (1925).
Belted Galloway
Rockport
Rockport was the home of Andre the Seal, a seal adopted by the Goodridge family in the 1970s, and who entertained guests in Rockport Harbor until his death in 1986. The book A Seal Called Andre was co-written by the seal's owner Harry Goodridge, describes the story of Andre. The 1994 film Andre was adapted from the book, although in the movie Andre is actually played by a sea lion, not a seal. A statue of Andre presides beside the harbor in his honor.
Rockport is also known for the famous Belted Galloway cattle. The cattle are raised at the 136 year old Aldermere Farm, which is owned and operated by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a statewide land conservation organization. The Belted Galloways remain one of the area's most popular attractions, and often referred to as the "Oreo cookie" cows.
The 1993 film The Man Without a Face, starring Mel Gibson, and the 2001 film In the Bedroom, were both filmed in Rockport.
According to forbes.com in a 2008 article, Rockport was listed as the number one prettiest town in America. The list included 19 other towns. A photograph of Rockport harbor on a sunny autumn day was the picture used for Rockport. See America's Prettiest Towns
Rumford
Notable People
Edmund Muskie, U.S. Secretary of State
Wendall "Chummy" Broomhall
Chet Bulger, Offensive Tackle for the 1947 NFL Champion Chicago Cardinals
Robert W. Pidacks
Sabattus
Notable People
Gleason Archer, Sr., founder of Suffolk University Law School
St. George
Notable People
Albert S. Bickmore, naturalist
Sarah Orne Jewett, author
Russell W. Porter, artist and explorer
John G. Roberts, chief justice
Charles Wilbert Snow, politician
Andrew Wyeth, artist
Jamie Wyeth, artist
N. C. Wyeth, artist
Sanford
The town gained national notoriety in 1984, when 12-year-old Gycelle Cote was strangled by Scott Waterhouse, then 18. Rumors of Satan worship surrounded the case, and some of Waterhouse's personal belongings were deemed to be occult in nature. These included a copy of Satanic Bible and a notebook carrying satanic poetry. The furor culminated in several tabloid stories and at least one headline referring to the town as "Terrortown!".[citation needed]
Notable People
Carl Broggi, subject of NBC movie
Randy Brooks, musician
Barry Burbank, meteorologist
Harland Eastman, U.S. diplomat
George W. Emery, Vice-Admiral, USN
Vic Firth, musician, businessman
Patricia Johnson Fiske, President/CEO, Worldwide Partners
Louis B. Goodall, businessman & congressman
Forrest R. Haselton, President, Sears & Roebuck
Jayne Greer Hurley, nutritionist
Sumner Increase Kimball, organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service, founder of Coast Guard Academy
Peter Kostis, golf instructor & sportscaster
Donald Lamontagne, Lt. General, USAF
Franz Lidz, journalist and author of Unstrung Heroes
Ronald J. Marcotte, Lt. General, USAF
Fred Nutter, broadcaster
Freddy Parent, baseball player
James B. Pickett, chemical engineer, inventor of recycled pavement
Lawrence Lee Pelletier, President, Allegheny College
Muriel Poulin, nursing expert
Joe Riggs, Mixed martial arts fighter, UFC veteran
Harold Shaw, dairy pioneer
Robley Wilson, Jr., writer, professor
John Lincoln Wright, musician
Krista Clark Lackey, wife of Major League Baseball pitcher John Lackey
Glenn Close
Scarborough
Notable People
Glenn Close, actress
Joe Bessey, NASCAR owner/driver
Winslow Homer, artist
William King, first governor of Maine
Rufus King, U.S. Senator from New York and U. S. Ambassador to Britain
Jay Mazur, hockey player/scarborough middle school athletic director
Kelly Moore, stock car driver
John Wingate Thornton, historian
Vinalhaven
Notable People
Margaret Wise Brown, children's book author
Caitlin Cahow, hockey player
Joseph P. Dyer, politician
John C. Harkness, architect
John Jay Iselin, administrator & educator
Philip Jamison, artist
Brewster Jennings, industrialist
Leverett Saltonstall, politician
John Wulp, scenic designer, producer & director
Ketch Secor, musician.
Waldoboro
Waldoboro was the launching port for the Governor Ames in 1888, the first five masted schooner.[3] The Governor Ames was built in Waldoboro's Leavitt Storer Shipyard
Notable People
Benjamin Brown, congressman
Robert Creeley, poet
Frederick G. Payne, governor and senator
Isaac Reed, congressman
Augusta Emma Stetson, religious leader
Clyde Sukeforth, major league baseball player
Warren
Notable People
Ellis Spear, Civil War general
Washburn
Notable People
Renee Belanger, Miss Maine 2000[2]
Meranda Hafford, Miss Maine 2001[3]
James Chico Hernandez, Wrestling Champion & Maine Sports Hall of Fame Member
Washington
Notable People
John Christie (ski entrepreneur)
Waterboro
Notable People
Amos L. Allen, congressman
Waterford
Notable People
Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward), writer
Elbridge Gerry, congressman
Cyrus Hamlin, missionary and educator
Weld
Notable People
C. J. Stevens, writer
Wells
Notable People
George Burroughs, clergyman, and victim of the Salem witch trials
Nathan Dingle, NFL football player [1]
Steve Lavigne, comic book illustrator
Nathaniel Littlefield, U.S. representative
Ryan Peters (stage name Spose), musician
John Fairfield Scamman, U.S. representative
John Wheelwright, clergyman, and one of the original settlers of Wells
Westmanland
Notable People
Adm. Gregory G. Johnson, USN (ret.)
Wilton
Notable People
David Chamberlain, cross-country skier
L. Brooks Leavitt, investment banker & antiquarian book collector
Ray LaMontagne, folk artist, resident until about the spring of 2007 when he moved "Up towards Rangeley"
Alpheus Beede Stickney, railway president
Windham
Notable People
John Albion Andrew, governor
John Anderson, congressman
Jeff Donnell, actress
Willard Mains, baseball Player
Windsor
The town was formerly known as Malta, and gave its name to the "Malta War", a minor rebellion against the Massachusetts state government in Boston over settlement and land ownership rights in the first decade of the 1800s
Winslow
Scenes from the 2005 miniseries Empire Falls, starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, and Helen Hunt, and based on the 2001 book Empire Falls by Richard Russo, were shot in Winslow. The town is home to the state's largest 4 July fireworks display.
Notable People
Mike Cowan, golf caddy
Joshua Cushman, minister & congressman
Charles Fletcher Johnson, senator
Sharon Lee, science fiction author
Steve Miller, science fiction author
Thomas Rice, congressman
Samuel Francis Smith, minister & author
Winter Harbor
Notable People
Winter Harbor is recently home to Roxanne Quimby who is cofounder and CEO of Burt's Bees.
It is the birthplace of Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., prominent Philadelphia philanthropist
Winterport
Notable People
James Otis Kaler, journalist and children's author
Frederick Low, congressman and governor of California
Daniel White, brigadier general
Winthrop
Notable People
Samuel P. Benson, congressman
Del Bissonette, baseball player
Elizabeth Armstrong Reed, scholar & author
Benjamin White, congressman
Wiscasset
National News Wiscasset was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the smallest church in the world.[4] The church now is occasionally displayed at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 1995, a small fire erupted at Maine Yankee Nuclear Power plant. The fire emitted a tremendous amount of smoke which made it seem worse than it was. A video, by photographer Keith Brooks, was obtained by local media and was presented on NBC Nightly News. While the fire wasn't a tremendous threat, many locals believed it was a major concern for the environment, which caused several referendums to have the nuclear plant to close.
In 2009, the town lost a legal battle to reclaim an original copy of the Declaration of Independence [5] that was accidentally sold by the estate of the daughter of a former town official, Sol Holbrook. A Virginia court ruled the true owner was Richard L. Adams, Jr., who paid $475,000 for the document in 2002. The State of Maine paid nearly $40,000 in legal fees.[5]. 250 copies were made and distributed throughout the colonies and delivered to towns. Only 11 of the original documents have ever been found.
Red's Eats, a small take out restaurant, located by the Donald E. Davey Bridge on Route 1 has been featured in more than 20 magazines and newspapers, including USA Today and National Geographic and several major television network newscasts, including Sunday Morning on CBS and a report by Bill Geist. The restaurant has been deemed to have "The best lobster roll in Maine." [6]
Notable People
Hugh J. Anderson, congressman & governor
Jeremiah Bailey, congressman
Thomas Bowman, congressman
Franklin Clark, congressman
Orchard Cook, congressman & postmaster
Rev. Bob Cull, Christian musician, composer, producer and Pastor of Mid Coast Country Chapel in Wiscasset
Juliana Hatfield, singer/songwriter
John D. McCrate, congressman
Thomas Rice, congressman
Ted Sannella, dance caller & choreographer
Richard Hawley Tucker, astronomer
Abiel Wood, congressman
Woodstock
The Last Manual Telephones - Bryant Pond achieved some national fame and media attention beginning in the mid-1970s when its family-owned Bryant Pond Telephone Company became the last hand-crank telephone exchange in operation in the United States. When in 1981 the local company, operating from a two-position magneto switchboard in the living room of owners Barbara and Elden Hathaway, was purchased by the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Company, a nearby larger independent company. A movement called "Don't Yank The Crank" was organized by David Perham and Brad Hooper in a valiant but futile effort to keep their beloved crank phones. The effort was not ultimately successful, and the last "crank" calls took place on 11 October 1983, when a modern dial exchange was placed in service
Woolwich
Notable People
Wilmot Brookings, pioneer, judge & politician
John W. Brown, union leader
Sir William Phips, governor
Yarmouth
The Yarmouth Clam Festival Established in 1965, the Yarmouth Clam Festival is an annual three-day event which takes place in the town during the third weekend in July, attracting around 120,000 people. The festival features a parade, food, carnival rides, crafts, a clam-shucking contest, a five-mile run, and a world-class bike race.
"Herbie" was an elm tree that stood by present-day East Main Street (State Route 88), at its intersection with Yankee Drive, between 1793 and 2010.[10] At 110 feet in height, it was, between 1997 and the date of its felling,[11] the oldest[3] and largest[12] of its kind in New England.[13] The tree, which partially stood in the front yard of a private residence, also had a 20-foot circumference and (until mid-2008) a 93-foot crown spread.[13]
Notable People
Charles Augustus Aiken, served as a pastor of the Congregationalist Church here from 1854 through 1859[14]
Travis Roy, motivational speaker and author of the memoir Eleven Seconds
Leon Gorman, grandson of Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of L.L.Bean
James B. Longley, Jr., former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Papa Gesch, male nudist and former spokesman of The Naturist Society, and organization primarily known for its nudist leanings.
Hanley Denning, founder of Safe Passage, who was killed in a car accident on January 18, 2007, in Guatemala City
Pat LaMarche, Green Party candidate for Maine Governor, 2006, Green Party Vice-Presidential candidate 2004
Eric Weinrich, professional ice hockey player who attended NYA and now lives in Yarmouth
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Notable People
Emerson Baker, historian and author
Christopher Cassidy, NASA astronaut
Richard Foerster, poet
Rufus McIntire, congressman
May Sarton, poet
George Thatcher, statesman
Erin Burbank, 20th-century artist
Anthony Bitetti, musician
Frank Wallace, author
Barbara Marois, Former olympic field hockey player
