Weather 191039/14/2023 A bridge connecting Bangor with Brewer is named for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the regiment's leader and one of eight Civil War soldiers from Penobscot County towns to receive the Medal of Honor. The 20th Maine Infantry Regiment held Little Round Top in the Battle of Gettysburg. The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, mustered in Bangor and commanded by a local merchant, lost more men than any other Union regiment in the war (especially in the Second Battle of Petersburg, 1864). ĭuring the American Civil War the locally mustered 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first to march out of Maine in 1861, and played a prominent part in the First Battle of Bull Run. Editor Marcellus Emery escaped unharmed and it was only after the war that he resumed publishing. In 1861, a mob ransacked the offices of the Democratic newspaper the Bangor Daily Union, threw the presses and other materials into the street and burned them. Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820 when it voted to secede from Massachusetts and was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise. ĭuring the War of 1812 Bangor and Hampden were sacked by the British. Six cannons were removed from the riverbed, five of which are on display throughout the region (one was thrown back into the river by area residents angered that the archeological site was destroyed for the bridge's construction). The ships remained there until the late 1950s, when construction of the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge disturbed the site. In 1779, the rebel Penobscot Expedition fled up the Penobscot River and ten of its ships were scuttled by the British fleet at Bangor. Wars of Independence, 1812, and Civil War It was known as Sunbury until incorporation as Bangor in 1791. Then known as Norumbega, by 1772, there were 12 families, along with a sawmill, store, and school. In 1769, Jacob Buswell founded a settlement at the site. The Jesuits established a mission on Penobscot Bay in 1609, which was then part of the French colony of Acadia, and the valley remained contested between France and Britain into the 1750s, making it one of the last regions to become part of New England. The Spaniards, led by Gómez, were the first Europeans to make landfall in what is now Maine, followed by the Frenchman Samuel de Champlain in 1605. The first European known to have explored the area in 1524 was Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese navigator who sailed in the service of Spain in the 1520s. Contact with Europeans was not uncommon during the 1500s because the fur trade was lucrative and the Penobscot were willing to trade pelts for European goods. They practised some agriculture, but less than peoples in southern New England where the climate is milder, and subsisted on what they could hunt and gather. The Penobscot people have inhabited the area around present-day Bangor for at least 11,000 years and still occupy tribal land on the nearby Penobscot Indian Island Reservation. In 2015, local celebrities and business owners recorded the YouTube video "How to Say Bangor", which was sung to the tune of " We Are the World". The name Bangor is said to have been taken from a Welsh tune. East Coast and Europe.īangor has a humid continental climate, with cold, snowy winters, and warm summers.įounded as Kendeskeag Plantation in 1791, Bangor was incorporated as a town in 1834. Historically Bangor was an important stopover on the Great Circle Air Route between the U.S. Today, Bangor's economy is based on services and retail, healthcare, and education.īangor has a port of entry at Bangor International Airport, also home to the Bangor Air National Guard Base. Evidence of this is still visible in the lumber barons' elaborate Greek Revival and Victorian mansions and the 31-foot-high (9.4 m) statue of Paul Bunyan. Lying on the Penobscot River, logs could be floated downstream from the Maine North Woods and processed at the city's water-powered sawmills, then shipped from Bangor's port to the Atlantic Ocean 30 miles (48 km) downstream, and from there to any port in the world. Modern Bangor was established in the mid-19th century with the lumber and shipbuilding industries. The city proper has a population of 31,753, making it the state's third-largest settlement, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Bangor ( / ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ɔːr/ BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
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