grantttt803 t1_iu2z7q0 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:09 AM

When did Maine split from Mass?

[deleted] t1_iu35m30 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Maine became a state in 1820, but we started as a separate colony in the early 1600s and always existed as our own province even while we were part of Massachusetts.

xach t1_iu42f8f wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:16 PM

It was the District of Maine, sometimes called just “the District.” After the separation Massachusetts still owned a great deal of Maine land.

philliumm t1_iu3u6m2 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:50 AM

Wow, I like the reference longitude: degrees east from Philadelphia.

Pownalboro looks like about Dresden area?

B0ndzai t1_iu475zp wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:57 PM

Yep that's what I was thinking too. Maybe into Wiscasset area as well.

rdstrmfblynch79 t1_iu3urkp wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:57 AM

Never knew the history of new brunswick being part of nova scotia. Some of the lakes and coastline in this are really not that great. It's amazing how much better they get between then and 100 years after

SobeysBags t1_iu41s6f wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:10 PM

odd that they called New Brunswick "Nova Scotia" in this map if it is from 1795. New Brunswick split from Nova Scotia in 1784, due to the mass amount of refugees from the American revolution coming across the border.

An early map of colonial Maine, from the US Gazetteer (1795)

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