Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Presque Isle

City, Aroostook county, northeastern Maine, U.S., on the Aroostook River and its affluent the Presque Isle Stream, near the New Brunswick (Canada) border, 163 miles (262 km) north-northeast of Bangor. Settled in the 1820s as Fairbanks, it was incorporated as a town in 1859 with a name indicative of a peninsula that was �almost an island� (French: presqu'�le). It annexed Maysville in 1883. After completion

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