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The State of Maine asserted that the boundary between the states runs along the middle of the river to the south of Seavey's Island, which places the island within Maine. The State of New Hampshire asserted a historical claim to ownership of the river up to the shoreline on the Maine side, which would place the island within New Hampshire. [1]
The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War [1]), or the Madawaska War, [2] was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.
Aroostook War (Maine/New Brunswick), a bloodless dispute that lasted from 1838 to 1839, leading to the Webster–Ashburton negotiations. Republic of Madawaska (Maine/New Brunswick), putative state in 1827, within the territory that became part of New Brunswick in 1842. Oregon boundary dispute (Columbia District and New Caledonia/Oregon Country)
Under the Boundary Treaty of 1970 and earlier treaties, the United States and Mexico have maintained the actual course of the river as the international boundary, but both must approve proposed changes. From 1989 to 2009, there were 128 locations where the river changed course, causing land that had been on one side of the river to then occupy ...
Maine boundary dispute that led to the 1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty As a result of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842, the United States ceded 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2 ) of disputed territory to the British / Canadians along the American-claimed northern Maine border, including the Halifax–Quebec Route, but kept 7,000 square ...
University of Oklahoma President Joseph Harroz Jr. updates members of the Oklahoma Red River Boundary Commission about a border dispute with Texas during a meeting at the Oklahoma Capitol in ...
Thanks to an election day question, some 925 acres previously thought to be Spencer County land will become Shelby County land.
A dispute about the bounds of a 1630 land grant led in 1643 to the short-lived formation of Lygonia on territory that encompassed a large area of the Gorges grant (modern Portland, Scarborough and Saco). The 1629 Charter of Massachusetts Bay set the northern sea-to-sea boundary three miles north of the northernmost part of the Merrimack River. [23]