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This item is a photo quality 2011 calendar for the City of Bangor, Maine. This calendar includes over 50 photos of particular historical and cultural significance. Matted, framed and ready to hang photos from this calendar are available for sale at Rebecca Gifts on Maine Street in Bangor, Maine. Each calendar comes in its own clear, plastic, self-sealing sleeve and packed and shipped in a rigid, secure mailing envelope to protect your new collectible calendar.<></>

<></>Bangor is located at the site of confluence of the Kendeskeag and Penobscot Rivers, for years known as the tidal head, where the river becomes the bay at the site of a great dam that spanned the river for most of the cities early history. In 1525 Estavan Gomez, a Portuguese mariner sailing for King Charles V of Spain was the first known settler to visit the site, followed by the French explorer, Samuel de Champlain who sailed the river after starting a settlement on an island off the East Coast of Maine. Fishing, fur trading and lumbering help colonize and enrich the area for the next 300 years. In 1820 Maine became and independent state from Massachusetts. The flourishing forests surrounding the area helped bring industry, shipbuilding, lumber exports and people and their cultures from all over the world, first becoming known as the “lumber capital of the world” and then a hub for the paper and pulp industry. Today, the Bangor area is the commercial, educational and social center for North, Central and Eastern Maine, the third largest city in the state that is at the front door of Acadia National Park, Baxter State Park, Moosehead Lake Region and West Branch Water Way, allowing easy access to some of the most pristine natural beauty this country can offer. Bangor boasts of a rich aviation history with its military base turned International Airport, an Aviation Historical Museum, its many grass strip airfields and seaplane bases in the past and present. The world oldest and largest annual seaplane fly in is held nearby on Moosehead Lake, only minutes away by both land and air. This calendar emphasizes the city with its old and new buildings, industry and great history on the water.