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MAINE GENEALOGY TRAILS
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STATE BIRD: Chickadee
STATE FLOWER:  White pine cone and tassel (Pinus strobus, linnaeus)
adopted by Legislature in 1895

State Flower:  White pine cone & tassel
State Bird: Chickadee
State Tree:  Eastern White Pine
Maine is called the Pine Tree State
State Motto:  Dirigo (I direct)

Maine was at one time part of Massachusetts. It became its own state on March 15th, 1820, becoming the 23rd state admitted to the United States of America, although its northern borders were not finalized until 1842.

State Capitol:
Augusta

Maine's Access to Government

Famous people from Maine:

Walter Van Tilburg Clark writer, East Oreland
Cyrus Curtis publisher, Portland
Dorothea Dix civil rights reformer, Hampden
Dustin Farnum actor, Hampton Beach
John Ford film director, Cape Elizabeth
Melville Fuller jurist, Augusta
Marsden Hartley painter, Lewiston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet, Portland
Sarah Orne Jewett author, South Berwick
Stephen King writer, Portland
Linda Lavin actress, Portland
Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor, Sangerville
Edna St. Vincent Millay poet, Rockland
Marston Morse mathematician, Waterville
Frank Munsey publisher, Mercer
Walter Piston composer, Rockland
George Palmer Putnam publisher, Brunswick
Kenneth Roberts historical author, Kennebunk
Edwin Arlington Robinson poet, Head Tide
Margaret Chase Smith politician, Skowhegan
Percy Lebaron Spencer inventor, Howland
Francis & Freelan Stanley inventors, Kingfield
John Hay Whitney publisher, Ellsworth






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