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Bangor is known as the "Queen City." Modern Bangor was established in the mid-19th century with the lumber and shipbuilding industries. Lying on the Penobscot River , logs could be floated downstream from the Maine North Woods and processed at the city's water-powered sawmills, then shipped from Bangor's port to the Atlantic Ocean 30 miles (48 ...
Bangor – The Queen City of the East [3] Bath – The City of Ships [4] Cherryfield – Blueberry Capital of the World [5] Farmington. Earmuff Capital of the World [6] Farm Town [7] Freeport – Birthplace of Maine [8] [9] Lincoln – The Gateway Town [10] Lewiston – Little Canada [11] The Dirty Lew [12] Millinocket – The Magic City [13]
Camden, Arkansas or Queen City of the Ouachita River; Eureka, California or Queen City of the Ultimate West; Denver, Colorado or Queen City of the Plains; Gainesville, Georgia; Hazard, Kentucky or Queen City of the Mountains; Bangor, Maine or Queen City of the East; Cumberland, Maryland or Queen City of the Alleghenies; Marquette, Michigan or ...
City of Bangor: City Councils and Mayors from the Incorporation of the City, in 1834, to 1881, Bangor: R.A. Burr, 1881 – via Bangor Public Library; External links
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Bangor: City Penobscot (seat) 31,753 34.3 89 1834 South Portland: City Cumberland 26,498 12.1 31 1895 Auburn: City Androscoggin (seat) 24,061 59.3 154 1842 Biddeford: City York 22,552 30.1 78 1653 Scarborough: Town Cumberland 22,135 47.6 123 1658 Sanford: City York 21,982 47.8 124 1768 Brunswick: Town Cumberland 21,756 46.7 121 1739 Westbrook ...
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Graham was largely responsible for managing Bangor's turn-of-the-century transition from lumber port to light industrial center through the provision of cheap electricity from dams across the Union River in Ellsworth, Maine and the Penobscot River at Veazie, Maine. Bangor was the first city in New England (and one of the first in the United ...