What to see in America . rth 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 thi
What to see in America . rth 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 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 seized and bound the entire household, which con-sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Brackett, their five children, and a. Photo by Harold Baynes Auff UStReynard What to See in America
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