Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… entire thing was solved by a treaty rather than warfare. The dispute lasted from 1838 to 1839. This was the time span when both countries’ militias…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… became a 1st lieutenant and fought in Indian warfare on the American Plains. On June 25, 1876, at age 29, he died at the battle of “Little Big…"