A report on Maine

Maine State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch, built 1829–1832
Misty Morning, Coast of MaineArthur Parton (1842–1914). Between 1865 and 1870, Brooklyn Museum.
A map of Maine and surrounding regions
The Maine coast and Portland Head Light
Rocky shoreline in Acadia National Park
Autumn in the Hundred-Mile Wilderness
Köppen climate types of Maine, using 1991-2020 climate normals.
Winter in Bangor
Maine population density map
Bath Iron Works naval shipbuilding
Lobstering in Portland
Maine blueberries. The U.S.'s only commercial producers of wild blueberries are located in Maine.
Portland International Jetport
The Penobscot Narrows Bridge, carrying U.S. Route 1 and Maine State Route 3 over the Penobscot River
A southbound Downeaster passenger train at Ocean Park, Maine, as viewed from the cab of a northbound train
Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election
The University of Maine is the state's only research university.
Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin (pictured) Colleges form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium
College hockey being played at the Cross Insurance Center
Two moose in the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge. The moose is Maine's state mammal.
1. Portland
2. Lewiston
3. Bangor
4. South Portland
5. Auburn
6. Biddeford
7. Sanford
8. Brunswick
9. Saco
10. Scarborough
11. Westbrook
12. Augusta
Party registration by county: (November 2020)

State in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively.

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View of the coast

Mount Desert Island

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View of the coast
Somes Sound
Shorefront at evening
Mount Desert Island map
View from the summit of Mt. Penobscot
View atop Cadillac Mountain
Somes' Hotel c. 1870, John D. Heywood
Rock Inn, Northeast Harbor c. 1908
Seal Harbor Yacht Club
Acadia National Park
An Acadia carriage road
View Across Frenchman's Bay from Mount Desert Island After a Squall (1845) by Thomas Cole
Fog off Mount Desert (1850), by Frederic Edwin Church
Newport Mountain, Mount Desert (1851), by Frederic Edwin Church
Beacon, off Mount Desert Island (1851) by Frederic Edwin Church
Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine (1855) by Fitz Henry Lane
Off Mount Desert Island (1856) by Fitz Henry Lane
Mount Desert Island, Maine (1864) by Jervis McEntee
Mt. Desert, Maine (1866) by William Trost Richards

Mount Desert Island (MDI; Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine.

Penobscot Bay (Maine)

Penobscot Bay

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Penobscot Bay (Maine)
Penobscot Bay near Belfast
A 180° panorama of the Penobscot Bay from near the Belfast/Searsport town line looking SE. Belfast Bay is to the right, Northport on the peninsula, Islesboro on the center horizon, Castine to the left of that, and toward Stockton Springs and the entrance to the Penobscot River are beyond the trees on the far left.

Penobscot Bay (Baie de Penobscot) is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean in south central Maine.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

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English settlement on the east coast of America around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

English settlement on the east coast of America around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

Map of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Map depicting tribal distribution in southern New England, circa 1600; the political boundaries shown are modern
Map of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years
The Dominion of New England in 1688
Constructed in 1641, the Fairbanks House is a First Period home with clapboard siding
Salem Common was established as a village green in 1667
Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common in 1660

The territory nominally administered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony covered much of central New England, including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.

Electoral votes, out of 538, allocated to each state and the District of Columbia for presidential elections to be held in 2024 and 2028, based on representation, which depends on population data from the 2020 census. Every jurisdiction is entitled to at least 3.

United States Electoral College

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Group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every four years for the sole purpose of appointing the president and vice president.

Group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every four years for the sole purpose of appointing the president and vice president.

Electoral votes, out of 538, allocated to each state and the District of Columbia for presidential elections to be held in 2024 and 2028, based on representation, which depends on population data from the 2020 census. Every jurisdiction is entitled to at least 3.
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 and Donald Trump 232 of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Cases of certificates of the electoral college votes confirming the results of the 2020 US election, after they had been removed from the House Chambers by congressional staff during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.
After the popular election in November, a state's Certificate of Ascertainment officially announces the state's electors for the Electoral College. The appointed Electoral College members later meet in the state capital in December to cast their votes.
Population per electoral vote for each state and Washington, D.C. (2010 census). By 2020 estimates, a single elector could represent more than 700,000 people or under 200,000.
When the state's electors meet in December, they cast their ballots and record their vote on a Certificate of Vote, which is then sent to the U.S. Congress. (From the election of 1876)
This cartogram shows the number of electors from each state for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Following the 2010 Census, New York and Ohio lost two electoral votes, 8 states lost one, 6 states gained one, Florida gained two, and Texas gained four.
This graphic demonstrates how the winner of the popular vote can still lose in an electoral college system similar to the U.S. Electoral College.
Bar graph of popular votes in presidential elections (through 2020). Black stars mark the five cases where the winner did not have the plurality of the popular vote. Black squares mark the two cases where the electoral vote resulted in a tie, or the winner did not have the majority of electoral votes. An H marks each of two cases where the election was decided by the House; an S marks the one case where the election was finalized by the Supreme Court.
These maps show the amount of attention given to each state by the Bush and Kerry campaigns (combined) during the final five weeks of the 2004 election: each waving hand (purple map) represents a visit from a presidential or vice presidential candidate; each dollar sign (green map) represents one million dollars spent on TV advertising.
Half the U.S. population lives in 143 urban / suburban counties out of 3,143 counties or county equivalents (2019 American Community Survey)

All states except Maine and Nebraska use a party block voting, or general ticket method, to choose their electors, meaning all their electors go to one winning ticket.

The 1622 grant of the Province of Maine is shown outlined in blue. The 1629 division into the Province of New Hampshire (south of the Piscataqua) and Province of Maine (north of the Piscataqua) is shown by shading. The boundaries of the Massachusetts Bay Company grant are shown in green.

Province of Maine

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The 1622 grant of the Province of Maine is shown outlined in blue. The 1629 division into the Province of New Hampshire (south of the Piscataqua) and Province of Maine (north of the Piscataqua) is shown by shading. The boundaries of the Massachusetts Bay Company grant are shown in green.

The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick.

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm in Aroostook County, 1940. Schools did not open until the potatoes were harvested. Photo by Jack Delano.

Aroostook County, Maine

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Children gathering potatoes on a large farm in Aroostook County, 1940. Schools did not open until the potatoes were harvested. Photo by Jack Delano.

Aroostook County (Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border.

Brunswick, Maine

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Map of Brunswick, Maine, dated May 29, 1795
The rail yard at Brunswick, Maine, pictured in a c. 1910 postcard
Brunswick High School
Curtis Memorial Library c. 1915
House where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin Class of 1825, roomed
Harriet Beecher Stowe House, where, between 1850 and 1852, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Maine Eastern Railroad train at the Amtrak station in Brunswick
Brunswick Falls {{circa|1912}}
Class of 1903 Gates at Bowdoin {{circa|1920}}
Massachusetts Hall at Bowdoin in 1907
Merrymeeting Park Casino {{circa|1905}}
One of the middle-class New England homes in Brunswick
Brunswick Town Hall
U.S. Post Office in Brunswick
An example of Gothic Revival architecture, the First Parish United Church of Christ at 207 Maine Street in Brunswick (founded 1845), was added in 1969 to the National Register of Historic Places.

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

Newfoundland and Labrador

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Easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

Easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

The Long Range Mountains on Newfoundland's west coast are the northernmost extension of the Appalachian Mountains.
Köppen climate types of Newfoundland and Labrador
An artistic depiction of the Maritime Archaic culture, at the Port au Choix Archaeological Site. The Maritime Archaic peoples were the first to settle Newfoundland.
Depiction of the Inuit of Labrador, c. 1812
A Beothuk encampment in Newfoundland, c. 18th century
A statue of John Cabot at Cape Bonavista. The cape is officially cited as the area where Cabot landed in 1497, by the governments of Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Plaque in St. John's commemorating the English claim over Newfoundland, and the beginning of the British overseas empire
French forces sacking English settlements in Newfoundland in 1696
A French invasion of the Newfoundland was repulsed during the Battle of Signal Hill in 1762.
People in front of the Colonial Building protesting against economic conditions, 1932. In the next year, the government of Newfoundland collapsed, and the British government resumed direct control over Newfoundland.
Joey Smallwood signing a document bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation, 1948
Population density of Newfoundland and Labrador
Fishing boats and lobster traps in Salvage, Newfoundland
The Hebron oil platform, before being towed out to the Grand Banks
The Voisey's Bay Mine is one of several mines located in the province.
The Confederation Building serves as the meeting place for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
Photograph of an artist sketching St. John's harbour and skyline, c. 1890
The Rooms is a provincial cultural facility that houses the provincial art gallery.
Michael Crummey is a contemporary novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador.
E. J. Pratt wrote a number of poems describing maritime life and the history of Canada.
The Newfoundland Tricolour is an unofficial flag used by a number of Newfoundlanders.
The unofficial Flag of Labrador, used by a number of Labradorians
Mile One Centre is an indoor arena in St. John's.
The Trans-Labrador Highway is the primary highway for Labrador.
MV Atlantic Vision is one of several ships that provides inter-provincial ferry service to Newfoundland.

They engaged in long-distance trade, using as currency white chert, a rock quarried from northern Labrador to Maine.

Waterville, Maine

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One Post Office Square, a multiple-use facility, in downtown Waterville
View of downtown Waterville (2014)
Silver and Elm streets (1910), showing the Universalist Church, which was established in 1832
Population of Waterville from 2000 to 2015
Coburn Classical Institute (c. 1910), burned in 1955
Waterville City Hall (2014)
Monument to Union Army soldiers in Waterville
Waterville Country Club golf course

Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River.

Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket)

Androscoggin people

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Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket)
Mi'kmaq
Maliseet, Passamaquoddy
Western Abenaki (Arsigantegok, Missisquoi, Cowasuck, Sokoki, Pennacook

The Androscoggin (Arosaguntacook, etc., see names) were an Abenaki people from what are now the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire.