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* Machias ( earlier " Machias Five Corners " and " Chickasaw ") – the principal hamlet and business district is the town on NY Route 16 in the east part of the town.
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* 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
The Webster – Ashburton Treaty failed to clarify ownership of Machias Seal Island and nearby North Rock, which remain in dispute today.
Currently, runs of 11 rivers in Maine are on the list – Kennebec, Androscoggin, Penobscot, Sheepscot, Ducktrap, Cove Brook, Pleasant, Narraguagus, Machias, East Machias and Dennys.
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He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and moved to Maine, where he was the principal of the Washington Academy in East Machias.
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Machias Seal Island and North Rock, off its easternmost point, are claimed by both the U. S. and Canada and are within one of four areas between the two countries whose sovereignty is still in dispute, but it is the only one of the disputed areas containing land.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Machias is administering federal USDA funds in a small watersheds program known as PL566.
To the east is the Town of Centerville in Allegany County, and to the west are the Towns of Yorkshire and Machias.
Lime Lake-Machias is a census-designated place including part of the Town of Machias, in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.
The census region is composed of the two hamlets of Lime Lake and Machias in the northeast part of the town.
From Stump to Ship is an amateur industrial film by Alfred Ames, owner of the Machias Lumber Company, in Machias, Maine and by Dr. Howard Kane of Washington, DC.
Machias is a census-designated place ( CDP ) corresponding to the central village area within the town of Machias in Washington County, Maine, United States.
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O ' Brien and his five brothers, Gideon, John, William, Dennis and Joseph, were crewmembers of the sloop Unity when she captured Margaretta on June 12, 1775, at the entrance to the harbor at Machias ( a town then in Massachusetts, now in Maine ).
On 12 June 1775, inspired to act after hearing the news of Minutemen and British regulars battling on the fields of Lexington and Concord, citizens of the seaside town of Machias, Maine, commandeered the schooner Unity and engaged the British warship HMS Margaretta, boarding her and forcing her surrender after bitter close quarters combat.
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The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southwest limit of the Bay of Fundy as " A line running northwesterly from Cape St. Mary ( 44 ° 05 ' N ) Nova Scotia, through Machias Seal Island ( 67 ° 06 ' W ) and on to Little River Head ( 44 ° 39 ' N ) in the State of Maine ".
Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Machias ranks 54th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.
Peter Tomah, a Malecite chief and a staunch Roman Catholic, negotiated with the American colonists in council at Machias ( Maine ) on 27 December 1779.
In one of these operations, the first naval engagement of the war, colonists in Machias, then part of Massachusetts ( now in eastern Maine ), seized a British schooner in the Battle of Machias on June 12, 1775.
Machias Seal Island is an island located in the Gulf of Maine, approximately southeast from Cutler, Maine, and approximately southwest of Southwest Head, New Brunswick on Grand Manan Island.
Machias Seal Island lies within 3. 5 leagues from Grand Manan Island and 3 leagues from the coast of Maine, although Britain would later cease its claims on other islands in eastern Maine, such as Moose Island.
However, the United States has never maintained an ongoing presence on the island as Canada has, and until recent decades, many branches of the Federal and State of Maine governments were inconsistent in their communications: they sometimes have referred to Machias Seal Island as being owned by Canada.
Machias Seal Island's ( and North Rock's ) sovereignty would likely not still be in question today if it were not for the decision by Canada and the United States to avoid settling this issue in their 1979 joint application to the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) at The Hague in the Netherlands to have the maritime boundary delineated in the Gulf of Maine for fishing and mineral exploration purposes on Georges Bank.
Both nations avoided having ICJ rule on the sovereignty of Machias Seal Island and North Rock by agreeing to have a common starting point for the offshore boundary southwest of the island at.
Since the 1984 ICJ ruling on the Gulf of Maine decided the fate of offshore boundaries, Machias Seal Island ( and neighboring North Rock, an exposed rock outcropping approximately north-northeast at, as well as the surrounding waters, have become a political football for local politicians in fishing communities of coastal Charlotte County, New Brunswick and Washington County, Maine.
Today, all lighthouses in Eastern Canada except for the station on Machias Seal Island are unmanned.
The Machias Seal Island light had been automated several years prior to the announcement, but Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs is now covering the Canadian Coast Guard's costs to maintain lightkeepers on Machias Seal Island " for sovereignty purposes ".
* The Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network ( ACWERN ) conducts scientific research on Machias Seal Island.
Canada and the U. S. continue to disagree on the sovereignty of Machias Seal Island and the waters surrounding it in the northeastern part of the gulf.
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