Bangor Maine 2008 Calendar With Unique And Historic Photos
Welcome to SEAPLANE COVE CLASSIC AUTO GARAGE: This item is a photo quality 2008 calendar for the City of Bangor, Maine. This calendar is published in conjunction with the Bangor Poster and Bangor Poster Photos currently on exhibit in the Bangor Museum and Center For History, The Bangor City Hall, The Bangor Visitors Bureau, Eastern Maine Development Corporation and other locations. Each calendar can be customized with your name, activity, business logo, business card, or special event on the cover. Each calendar comes in its own clear, plastic, self-sealing envelope and then packed into a secure, solid mailing envelope before shipping to protect your new collectible. Thank you very much for your interest in our published products. 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
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