Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1920 — EARLY "SETTLERS” OF MAINE [ARTICLE]

EARLY "SETTLERS” OF MAINE

State Wu PnopteS Some Time Moro the Landteg of the Pilgrims at Pfymetfh.' It was too story of a wonderftal city on the Penobscot rtver that led discoverers to sail far up the stream and finally establish settlements that led to organisation of toe state, of Maine, toe youngest of to* New England group, which this year is celebrating Its centennial. Before toe middle of the sixtegnto century stories were circulated in the Old World that Norumbega. which proved to be a city of Imagination, existed up toe stream. It was hunted for, but never found, but white men searched for it they made the discovery that the land was excellent, and that a future lay in the then wild forest a' Thirteen years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, a company of 120 colonists went ashore at a place near toe month of toe Kennebec river, and built a few houses, a chapel and a fort The first permanent settlement was established at Pemaquid in 1625. Thds Maine was peopled, if not settled, before Massachusetts or any other part of New England, a fact for which the effort made to find eluslvfe Norumbega was Id some measure responsible.