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Hiram T. Smith. Private Hiram T. Smith is a legendary casualty of the bloodless Maine Aroostook War, having died in 1838. Although one of roughly 38 men killed (all were non-combat deaths), he is the most famous because many locals consider him the only casualty of the war.
www .aroostook .me .us. Aroostook County ( / əˈruːstək / ə-ROO-stək; French: Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. [3] The county seat is Houlton, [4] with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent.
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. The term "war" was rhetorical ...
Biography Carleton and William Kemble's Map of the country near Buena Vista, Mexico, 1847-48. Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine.He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican–American War.
Limestone is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.The population was 1,526 at the 2020 census.. The town is best known for being the home of the Loring Commerce Centre (formerly Loring Air Force Base; also lying on its former territory is the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge) and Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM), which in 2019 ranked #2 in the United States by U.S ...
Northern Maine: the Aroostook "War" A new crisis surfaced in late 1838, in the disputed territory on the thinly settled Maine–New Brunswick frontier. Americans were settling on long-disputed land claimed by the United States and the United Kingdom. The British considered possession of the area vital to the defense of Canada.
The Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum is located at 109 Main Street, in the White Memorial Building, in Houlton, Maine. The museum was founded in 1937, after the building, a handsome 1903 Colonial Revival house, was donated to the town by the White family. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
War of 1812, Congressional Service, Aroostook War Signature Rufus McIntire (December 19, 1784 – April 28, 1866) was a United States lawyer , captain of U.S. Army artillery in the War of 1812 , congressman , U.S. Marshal , land agent and hostage/prisoner in the Aroostook War .