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On this date in Maine history: Nov. 2

Nov. 2, 1789: President George Washington, on his only visit to Maine – which is then part of Massachusetts – fishes for cod off the coast at Kittery, catching two of them. He also visits the site of what will become the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Nov. 2, 1860: The town of Bristol, like most of […]