File:Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine (1919).jpg
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English: Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine. Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john Title: What to see in America Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: Indian Island at Oldtown north as Lake Umbagog. It was named Maine in honorof the EngUsh queen, who came from France, where herestate was in the province of IVIayne. Gorges selected theplantation ofAgamenticus forhis capital, andmade it a city,namingit for him-self, Gorgiana. Itcomprised twenty-one square miles,had a mayor,aldermen, andcouncilmen; andthere were police-men, each ofwhom carried a white rod. Yet Gorgiana never had asmany as three hundred inhabitants. Maine developed peacefully for about fifty years, at theend of which time it had five or six thousand inhabitants distributed] in thirteenthriving settlements.Then came the Indianwars, and for nearly acentury the settlers werein constant terror of sav-age invaders. The trou-ble began on the 4th of1676, when aparty of Indians, whoseleader was Sinion, the Yankee-killer, invaded the homeof Anthony Brackett at Back Cove in what is now Portland.They seized and bound the entire household, which con-sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Brackett,
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