Tartan Day Photos

While I was doing a spring cleaning of my computer files, I found items from Maine Tartan Day 2007. One file is a plaque made by Noel Bonam, Director of Maine's Multicultural Office, using items we presented to him at the event. You can click on the photo for a full-size view.

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At the time of the American Revolution there were 31 communities of Scots and Scots-Irish in the area that is now the State of Maine.

Brunswick 1719

Purpooduc (Falmouth township) 1719

Cork Settlement 1720

Scarborough 1720

Topsham 1720

Falmouth 1727

Boothbay 1729

Bristol 1729

Nobleboro 1729

Pemaquid 1729

Pownalboro 1730

Scotland (York County) 1730

Townsend Settlement 1730

Cape Elizabeth 1734

Georgetown before 1734

Sheepscot 1734

Wiscasset 1734

Warren 1735

New Gloucester 1736

Damariscotta 1740

Stirling (Warren township) 1753

Newcastle 1754

Machias 1763

Winthrop before 1770

Gray 1774

St. George 1775

Sylvester 1775

Turner 1775

Belfast (Bagaduce) before 1776

Canaan (Somerset County) before 1780

Deer Island 1784

Ellsworth (Union River) 1785

Source: The Scotch-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America by Charles A. Hannah. Two Volumes. Originally published in New York in 1902. Republished in Baltimore by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1968.

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