New Sweden is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 577 at the 2020 census. Starting in 1870, a Swedish-immigrant colony...
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Sweden is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 406 at the 2020 census. Set among hills, forests and ponds, Sweden includes...
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School New Sweden, Maine New Sweden Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota New Sweden, Texas, remnants of a Swedish settlement near Austin New Sweden (yacht)...
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their Swedish heritage. (Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, while Jämtland and Västmanland are Swedish provinces.) The town of New Sweden, Maine, celebrates...
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Disappearance of Stefanie Damron (category 2024 in Maine)
Stefanie Damron, a 14-year-old girl from New Sweden, Maine, US, disappeared on September 23, 2024. She was last seen leaving her home and walking into...
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Einar Gustafson (category People from Aroostook County, Maine)
charity of the Boston Red Sox in 1953. Einar Gustafson was born in New Sweden, Maine on August 18, 1935. Growing up on a potato farm, Gustafson would walk...
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The Maine Coon is a large domesticated cat breed. One of the oldest natural breeds in North America, the breed originated in the U.S. state of Maine, where...
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Maine (/meɪn/ MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeastern most state in the Lower 48. It borders New Hampshire...
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Midsummer (redirect from Swedish Midsummer)
and features a maypole year-round. New Sweden, Maine. Ever since 51 Swedish immigrants came to Aroostook County, Maine in 1870, supported by a Legislative...
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Maine is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1...
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Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April...
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"Rudy Vallee: Franco-American and Man from Maine," Maine Historical Society Quarterly 1993 33(1): 2-19 "New Sweden". Perceived Barriers to Somali Immigrant...
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Anders and Johanna Olsson Farm (category Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine)
and Johanna Olsson Farm is a historic farmstead at 354 West Road in New Sweden, Maine, United States. It includes surviving elements of both a log house...
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Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church (category Swedish-American culture in Maine)
historic church at 29 Capitol Hill Road in New Sweden, Maine. The congregation was established by Swedish immigrants to the area in 1871, and the Gothic...
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borders Madawaska County, New Brunswick, many of the residents are bilingual in English and Acadian French. Elsewhere in Maine, New England French is the...
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Timmerhuset (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine)
Jemtland Road in New Sweden, Maine. Probably built sometime between 1871 and 1875, it is the oldest known surviving example of Swedish immigrant log construction...
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Nicholas P. Clase House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine)
its junction with Capitol Hill Road, in New Sweden, Maine. It is a log structure, built in 1874 by a Swedish immigrant to the area, and is one of a small...
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Starting in 1870, a Swedish-immigrant colony was established by the State of Maine in Aroostook County. On March 23, 1870, the Maine State Legislature passed...
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a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,418 at the 2020 census. A resort area in Maine's Lakes Region, Bridgton is home...
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United States Sweden, Georgia, a ghost town Sweden, Maine, a town Sweden, Missouri, an unincorporated community Sweden, New York, a town Sweden, South Carolina...
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Pehr J. Jacobson House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine)
historic log house at 452 New Sweden Road (Maine State Route 161) in New Sweden, Maine. It was built c. 1870 by one of the first Swedish immigrants drawn to...
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Oliver Wahlstrom (category Ice hockey players from Maine)
Cumberland, Maine. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Sweden through his father, Joakim Wahlstrom. His father played at the University of Maine before...
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connection from Vanceboro, Maine, with Saint John, New Brunswick, in the 1860s. The Canadian portion of this line was absorbed by the New Brunswick Railway, which...
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Dover-Foxcroft, Maine Larsson–Noak Historic District, New Sweden, Maine Stearns Hill Farm, West Paris, Maine Maryland Oakland Mills Blacksmith House and Shop...
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Maine East High School, or Maine East, and officially Maine Township High School East, is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Dempster...
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Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area while a different part of Oxford County is included in the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine...
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Larsson–Noak Historic District (category Swedish-American culture in Maine)
center of New Sweden, Maine. Notable among these is the c. 1888 Larsson-Ostlund House, which is the only known two-story log house built using Swedish construction...
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transcription delimiters. The Maine accent is the local traditional accent of Eastern New England English spoken in parts of Maine, especially along the "Down...
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William W. Thomas Jr. (category Politicians from Portland, Maine)
notable was his effort to bring Swedish colonists to northern Maine and later founding the community of New Sweden, Maine in 1870. He is also noted for...
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Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,232 at the 2020 census. The population of the town more than triples during...
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