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Lamoine: A Place with a Poker Face
Lamoine
Beach
is a favorite place for residents’ recreation—when they are not in
committee meetings deciding the town’s future.
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Yesterday |
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Coaling Station Put Town on Map
Lamoine hit its
height in terms of significance to the federal government exactly
100 years ago—when the North Atlantic fleet arrived on the town’s
shoreline to refuel in August of 1903.
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Memories |
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Enduring Quilt Celebrates Town’s
Past
Back in 1995, the year that Lamoine marked 125 years as a town,
Marion McFarland took charge of the local ladies’ quilt project—and
rightly so..
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Places |
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State Park Means Camping by the
Sea, With Lobster
By day, the Lamoine State Park is popular with the locals. By
night, however, the park is the domain of visitors from away.
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Neighbors |
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Marckoon’s Got That Familiar
Face—and Voice
Stu Marckoon has the longest list of titles in town: administrative
assistant, deputy clerk, treasurer, road commissioner and deputy tax
collector.
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photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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Go
Figure |
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Acreage:
20,005
Lamoine Facts:
Acreage: 11,028
Population, 2000: 1,495
Population, 1990: 1,311
Population, 19 years and younger, 2000: 393
Median age: 41.0
Library: None
School: Lamoine Consolidated School
Church: Lamoine Baptist Church
Town meeting: March
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They
Said It |
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 They
Said It
“It’s a great day when everything is busy…I like that, when
everything in town is just
humming at once.”
——Stu Marckoon, town
administrative assistant
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Milestones |
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1774: Captain Gilpatric is early settler
west of the Skilling’s River. His deed came from LaMoyne, an even
earlier French settler.
1792: Several French
families come to what is now East Lamoine
1870: Town is set off from
Trenton and incorporates as Lamoine.
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