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State Route 131 (SR 131) is a 58 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile-long (94.1 km) state route in the U.S. state of Maine. Its southern terminus is in the St. George community of Port Clyde, at a dead end near the Port Clyde Harbor. Its northern terminus is in Swanville, at the intersection with SR 141. [2]
State Route 17 (abbreviated SR 17) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, located in the south central part of the state.It is a major regional route running for 131.21 miles (211.16 km) from an intersection with State Route 4 in Oquossoc to an intersection with U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 1A in Rockland.
Warren is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,865 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It includes the villages of East Warren, Warren and South Warren, the latter home to the Maine State Prison and minimum security Bolduc Correctional Facility.
Norumbega, or Nurembega, is a legendary settlement in northeastern North America which was featured on many early maps from the 16th century until European colonization of the region. [1] [2] It was alleged that the houses had pillars of gold and the inhabitants carried quarts of pearls on their heads. [3]
State Route 90 (SR 90) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, located in Knox County. It is a minor highway serving as a bypass of Rockland on U.S. Route 1 (US 1), which it connects to at both ends.
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
Log jam at Ripogenus Gorge during 1870s log driving.. The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is divided into 155 unincorporated townships within the NMW management area. [1]
State Route 236 (SR 236) is a state highway located in extreme southern Maine, entirely within York County. It begins at State Route 103 in Kittery and runs 15.72 miles (25.30 km) north, terminating at State Route 9 in Berwick. Between Kittery and South Berwick, SR 236 is known as the Harold L. Dow Highway.