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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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Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842

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.