Online Highways Home > Maine > History Indians of the Abnaki and Etchemin tribes lived in Maine before the arrival of white men. Leif Erikson probably visited Maine around 1000 and John Cabot may have arrived in 1498. Champlain discovered Mt. Desert Island in 1604. In 1607, English colonists started Popham Plantation at the mouth of the Kennebec River, but it was abandoned the following year. In 1641, Gorgeana (now York) became the first chartered city in the present United States. Maine came under control of Massachusetts in 1677. In 1774, a group of Maine men burned British tea stored at York. This event, known as the York Tea Party, resembled the Boston Tea Party of 1773. In 1775, British troops burned Falmouth (now Portland). The first naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Machias in June, 1775. After the War of 1812, sentiment increased for separation from Massachusetts. Massachusetts became the 23rd state in 1823. Its boundary dispute with New Brunswick led to the Aroostook War in 1839. Alna WW&F Railway Museum | Auburn Androscoggin Historical Society Museum | Augusta Maine State Museum | Old Fort Western | Old Fort Western Museum | St. Mary of the Assumption | Statehouse | Bangor Bangor Historical Society Museum | Cole Land Transportation Museum | Bar Harbor Abbe Museum | Natural History Museum | Oceanarium | Bath Maine Maritime Museum | Maine Maritime Museum | Belfast Alden House | Penobscot Marine Museum | Bethel Dr. Moses Mason House Museum | Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Railway Village | Hendricks Hill Museum | Bradley Lenard's Mill | Bridgton Bridgton Historical Society Museum | Brunswick Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin Museum | Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum | Skolfield-Whittier House | Bucksport Fort Knox | Northeast Historic Film | Camden Camden Opera House | Castine T.V. State of Maine | Wilson Museum | Damariscotta Chapman-Hall House | Dexter Grist Mill Museum and the Miller's House | Dresden Mills Pownalborough Courthouse | Eastport Raye's Mustard Mill | Edgecomb Fort Edgecomb State Historic Site | Ellsworth Colonel Black Mansion | Farmington Nordica Homestead Museum | Fort Kent Fort Kent Historic Site | Greenville Moosehead Marine Museum | Island Falls Webb Vintage Museum | Kennebunk Brick Store Museum | Kennebunkport Kennebunkport Maritime Museum/Gallery | Kingfield Stanley Museum | Kittery Fort McClary State Historic Site | Kittery Historical and Naval Museum | Livermore Norlands Living History Center | Machias Burnham Tavern Museum | Machiasport Gates House | Milbridge Milbridge Historical Museum | Monmouth Monmouth Museum | New Gloucester Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum | Newcastle Second Congregational Church | St. Patrick's Church | Ogunquit Ogunquit Museum | Orono Hudson Museum | Owls Head Owls Head Transportation Museum | Patten Patten Lumbermen's Museum | Perry Waponahki Museum & Resource Center | Portland Center for Maine History | Willowbrook at Newfield | Rockland Farnsworth Homestead | Shore Village Museum | South Portland Portland Harbor Museum | Southwest Harbor Wendell Gilley Museum | Sullivan Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society | Thomaston Maine Watercraft Museum | Thomaston Historical Society | York Old York | Other upcoming events include:

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