Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWVWWWVWW I HISTORY of DEXTER LL citizens of Maine are proud of their state and they would be A more proud if they knew more of its history, for Maine has the most enviable one of any state in the Union. In studying its history we find that it's motto, I lead is well chosen and typical of Maine's past history and career. y The first permanent settlement in New England was made, not at Ply- mouth in 1622, but at Castine in 1611. In 1622 the starving people of Plymouth obtained a shipload of provisions and supplies from Pemaquid and other places in Maine. Castine claims the distinc- tion of having been held .by five differ- ent nationalities, the Indians, the French, the Dutch, the English, and the Americans- The first city in America was in Maine. It was called Georgiana and was founded by Ferdinando Gorges. He secured a grant of 24,000 acres, on both sides of York river, and establish- ed a colony there. Gorges' long thwart- ed ambition demanded a great success for his colony. He inaugurated a mini- ature old world city, with all its formal civil government and its many officials. But the city was not destined to live long. Sir Ferdinando Gorges died and while his son, Thomas, was abroad in Europe the city was -sacrificed to the ambition of the Massachusetts Bay Company. It was then sold to another company and when Thomas Gorges re- turned its civic splendor had all depart- ed. It remained a town, however, and it exists today under the name of York. The first seed sown and the first crop raised north of Florida was in Maine in the year 1605. The first English ship to be built in America was built in Maine in 1607, the same year that the first settlement was made in Virginia. The first bill of exchange which was also a conveyance of real estate, was given in Maine in 1623 and the first deed of real estate was drawn up in Maine in 1625.