The St John River Valley is the Crown of Maine.
When someone says they’ve been to Maine, ask them to tell you where. Dollars to donuts, the landing in Maine is usually near the Green Bridge on the state’s south end. Then after a short visit they probably high tail it back to the population centers below Maine.
Time, travel and knowing Maine is very tall, pretty wide keeps some from venturing too far north, east and west.
Missing out on so much up into the many interior sections to sample like the Crown of Maine.
The purpose of this blog post to leave you knowing more about the St John River Valley than when you stumbled onto the Me In Maine website.
More on settling the St John River Valley and the people called the Acadians, the French Canadians. To strengthen the mail route and plug a gap in service providing was one of the goals of the Quebec and New Brunswick governors.
The Acadians, displaced to make room for loyalists to the King of England after the American Revolution then moved from the southern valley to the north.
What was the carrot to entice the relocation? Moving for the land grants, the chance to gain the services of a priest and to reunite deported family members. (more…)