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Bangor (/ ˈbæŋɡɔːr / BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The city proper has a population of 31,753, [3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Bangor is known as the "Queen City." Modern Bangor was established in the mid-19th ...
The Maine accent is the local traditional accent of Eastern New England English spoken in parts of Maine, especially along the "Down East" and "Mid Coast" seaside regions. [1] It is characterized by a variety of features, particularly among older speakers, including r -dropping ( non-rhoticity ), resistance to the horse–hoarse merger , [ 2 ...
The Penobscot River was an early trade corridor to interior Maine from the Atlantic coast. Ocean ships could navigate upstream to Bangor.The cities of Rockland, Belfast, Brewer and Bangor, and the towns of Rockport, Camden, Northport, Searsport, Stockton Springs, Castine, Bucksport, Frankfort, Winterport, Orrington, and Hampden developed adjacent to the Penobscot River estuary.
Website. www.penobscot-county.net. Penobscot County is a county in the U.S. state of Maine, named for the Penobscot people in Wabanakik. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 152,199, [2] making it the third-most-populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Bangor. [3] The county was established on February 15, 1816, from part of ...
History and variants. "Riding Down from Bangor" was a poem written by Louis Shreve Osborne in 1871 while attending Harvard. [2] The text mentions the Eastern Railroad which ceased only a few years later in 1884 when it became part of the Boston and Maine. At some early point, Osborne's poem was set to music. [1]
The Bangor Public Library is the public library of Bangor, Maine. It shares the URSUS online cataloging system with the University of Maine and other Maine libraries. [3] The library's roots date to 1830, when the Bangor Mechanic Association assembled a private collection of books. [4] In 1873, it absorbed several other associations' libraries ...
The Bangor City Forest also known as the Rolland F. Perry City Forest is a large recreation area in Bangor, Maine. The park consists of approximately 650 acres (2.6 km 2) and features close to 10 miles (16 km) of hiking, cycling, and cross-country skiing trails. The trail system is well maintained and most trails are packed gravel.
74000189 [1] Added to NRHP. January 21, 1974. The Zebulon Smith House is a historic house at 55 Summer Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1832, it is one of the two oldest houses (along with the Charles Q. Clapp House in Portland) in the state of Maine to be built with a Greek Revival temple front. The house was listed on the National Register ...