Penobscot, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia
Com. Dudley Saltonstall led an entire American fleet to defeat in 1779; His expedition of nineteen armed ships and twenty-four transports was defeated by the British in the Penobscot River.
Gov. Thomas Pownall led 400 militiamen up the Penobscot River in May 1759.
One of Maine's finest collections of marine paintings is at the Douglas and Margaret Carver Gallery of the Penobscot Marine Museum
Maine's last wolf hunt was in 1815, on the shores of West Penobscot Bay.
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