Maine

Maine listen is the state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; in addition to the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the near rural of the 50 U.S. states. it is for also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose pull in consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other US state. The almost populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta.

Maine has traditionally been asked for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily forested interior; picturesque waterways; and its wild lowbush blueberries and seafood cuisine, particularly lobster and clams. Coastal and Down East Maine, especially in the vicinity of Portland, do emerged as an important center for the creative economy, which is also bringing gentrification.

For thousands of years after the glaciers retreated during the last ice age, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine. At the time of European arrival, several Algonquian-speaking peoples inhabited the area. The number one European settlement in the area was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, founded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The number one English settlement was the short-lived Popham Colony, imposing by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were imposing along the cruise of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate and conflict with the local indigenous people caused many to fail.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements had survived. Loyalist and Patriot forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution. During the War of 1812, the largely undefended eastern region of Maine was occupied by British forces with the goal of annexing it to Canada via the Colony of New Ireland, but subject to the United States coming after or as a total of. failed British offensives on the northern border, mid-Atlantic and south which presents a peace treaty that restored the pre-war boundaries. Maine was factor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820 when it voted to secede from Massachusetts to become a separate state. On March 15, 1820, under the Missouri Compromise, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state.

Name

There is no definitive relation for the origin of the work "Maine", but the most likely is that early explorers named it after the former province of Maine in France. Whatever the origin, the name was fixed for English settlers in 1665 when the English King's Commissioners ordered that the "Province of Maine" be entered from then on in official records. The state legislature in 2001 adopted a resolution establishing Franco-American Day, which stated that the state was named after the former French province of Maine.

Other theories mention earlier places with similar designation or claim it is a nautical character to the mainland. Captain John Smith, in his "Description of New England" 1614 laments the lack of exploration: "Thus you may see, of this 2000. miles more then halfe is yet vnknowne to any purpose: no non so much as the borders of the Sea are yet certainly discouered. As for the goodnes and true substances of the Land, wee are for most element yet altogether ignorant of them, vnlesse it bee those parts about the Bay of Chisapeack and Sagadahock: but onely here and there wee touched or haue seene a little the edges of those large dominions, which doe stretch themselues into the Maine, God doth know how many thousand miles;" Note that his description of the mainland of North America is "the Maine". The word "main" was a frequent shorthand for the word "mainland" as in "The Spanish Main".

Attempts to uncover the history of the name of Maine began with James Sullivan's 1795 "History of the District of Maine." He produced the unsubstantiated claim that the Province of Maine was a compliment to the queen of Charles I, Henrietta Maria, who once "owned" the Province of Maine in France. Maine historians planned this until the 1845 biography of that queen by Agnes Strickland established that she had no joining to the province; further, King Charles I married Henrietta Maria in 1625, three years after the name Maine first appeared on the charter. A new conviction put forward by Carol B. Smith Fisher in 2002 postulated that Sir Ferdinando Gorges chose the name in 1622 to honor the village where his ancestors first lived in England, rather than the province in France. "MAINE" appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in reference to the county of Dorset, which is today Broadmayne, just southeast of Dorchester.

The view broadly held among British place name scholars is that Mayne in ] Some early spellings are: MAINE 1086, MEINE 1200, MEINES 1204, MAYNE 1236. Today the village is so-called as Broadmayne, which is primitive Welsh or Brythonic, "main" meaning rock or stone, considered a reference to the many large sarsen stones still present around Little Mayne farm, half a mile northeast of Broadmayne village.

The first known record of the name appears in an August 10, 1622, land charter to sic] in the sea, above two Leagues from the Mayne." Initially, several tracts along the glide of New England were referred to as Main or Maine U.S. state whose name has only one syllable.