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Item 10123
Title: Webster-Ashburton anniversary proclamation, 1992
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society
Date: 1992-08-08
Location: Fort Kent
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10124
Title: Treaty anniversary proclamation, 1992
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society
Date: 1992-08-09
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10125
Title: New Brunswick Treaty of Washington anniversary proclamation, 1992
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society
Date: 1992-08-09
Media: Ink on paper
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The Aroostook War and the Northeast Border
From the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783 to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842, the northern border of Maine -- and the United States -- was uncertain and a source of considerable tension between the U.S. and Britain.