Maine Fun Facts and Trivia

Maine Facts and Trivia

1. Eastport is the most eastern city in the United States. The city is considered the first place in the United States to receive the rays of the morning sun.
2. In Wilton, there's a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.
3. Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
4. Maine is the only state that shares its border with only one other state.
5. The White Mountain National Forest covers nearly 800,000 acres, the forest covers a landscape ranging from hardwood forests to the largest alpine area east of the Rocky Mountains
6. Aroostook County at 6,453 square miles covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
7. Approximately 40 million pounds (nearly 90 percent) of the nation's lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine.
8. Maine produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
9. West Quoddy Head is the most easterly point in the United States.
10. Augusta is the most eastern capital city in the United States.
11. Mount Katahdin is the state's highest point at 5,268 feet above sea level.
12. 90% of the country's toothpick supply is produced in Maine.
13. Freeport is the home to the L.L. Bean Company.
14. The chickadee is the official state bird.
15. Maine lies farther northeast than any other state.
16. Maine's nickname as the Pine Tree State comes from the pines that once dotted the state's forests.
17. The state flower is the white pine cone and tassel.
18. The coastline boasts so many deep harbors it is thought all the navies in the world could anchor in them.
19. Maine lobsters have won international fame for their flavor and contribution to the culinary world.
20. The nation's first sawmill was established near York in 1623.
21. York became the nation's first incorporated city in 1642.
22. The first ship built by English colonists in the Americas was launched on the Kennebec River in 1607.
23. The first naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off Machias in 1775.
24. Maine's blueberry crop is the largest in the nation.
25. The honeybee is the official state insect.
26. Eastport is the only United States owned principality that has been under rule by a foreign government. It was held from 1814 to 1818 by British troops under King George following the conclusion of the War of 1812.