National Maine Day
National Maine Day:
Celebrated annually every December 21st, the National Maine Day honors the northeastern state and 23rd state to join the union. Maine’s captivating history and her rocky shoreline are home to many creative folks in music, poetry, sports, and culinary skills among the others!
Year | Date | Day | Where |
2020 | 21st December | Monday | United States |
2021 | 21st December | Tuesday | United States |
2022 | 21st December | Wednesday | United States |
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Related: Other National Days Celebrated on December 21st:
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Homeless Persons Remembrance Day
Why National Maine Day?
History and the current economy play a major role in highlighting the significance of a place. Maine is not only a tourist haven but is also known for its Franco-American culture, unique food, and a booming economy despite being small in area.
Of the 50 states of the United States of America, Maine ranks as the 12th smallest area,13th least densely populated area and is among the 9th least populated states.
Maine is the least thickly populated U.S. state present at the east of the Mississippi River. It is known as the Pine Tree State; over 80% of its all-out land is forested or unclaimed, the most woodland front of any U.S. state.
Maine is the main U.S. maker of low-bramble blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium). Starter information from the USDA for 2012 likewise demonstrate Maine was the biggest blueberry maker of the significant blueberry creating states, with 91,100,000 lbs.[87] This information incorporates both low (wild), and high-hedge (developed) blueberries: Vaccinium corymbosum.
The biggest toothpick producing plant in the United States used to be situated in Strong, Maine. The Strong Wood Products plant created 20 million toothpicks every day. It shut in May 2003.
In 2015, 14% of the Northeast’s absolute shellfish flexibly originated from Maine. In 2017, the creation of Maine’s ocean growth industry was assessed at $20 million every year.
The travel industry and open-air entertainment play a significant and progressively significant job in Maine’s economy. The state of Maine is a famous goal for various adventure-based sport chasing (especially deer, moose, and bear), sport fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, sailing, outdoors, and climbing activities.
Maine has a long-standing custom of being home to numerous shipbuilding organizations. In the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years, Maine was home to numerous shipyards that delivered wooden cruising ships.
With such richness in its land, it’s only fair Maine’s addition to the Union is celebrated!
How Can We Observe National Maine Day?
- Sail on the Maine Windjammer Cruise!
- Climb Katahdin and Camp at Baxter State Park
- Go White-Water Rafting from the Forks
- Ski the Snowfields at Sugarloaf
- Spend a Day at Bowdoin College
- Walk the Marginal Way in Ogunquit
- Take a Ferry to the Casco Bay Islands
- Stay at the Breakers Inn and Swim at Higgins Beach
- Camp at Cobscook Bay State Park
- Try the Best Lobster Rolls in Maine at Red’s on Route 1 through Wiscasset, Maine.
- Use #NationalMaineDay and #MaineDay to celebrate on social media!
Interesting Facts About National Maine Day:
Here are some interesting facts about Maine!
- Maine is the only state that shares its borders with only one other US state.
- 90% of the country’s lobster is supplied by Maine.
- 99% of the blueberries produced in the US come from the Pine Tree State
- Doughnut holes were invented in Maine! Captain. Hansen Gregory, from Rockport, Maine while working as a 16-year-old crewman on a lime-trading schooner in 1847, came up with the idea of punching a hole in the center of the doughnuts
- Maine has its desert, which spans 40 acres outside the town of Freeport.
- The people of Maine are fascinated and obsessed with lobsters, so much so that the University of Maine even has its own Lobster Institute, dedicated to acquiring more knowledge about the animals.
- At one point in history, Strong located in Maine produced 95 percent of all wooden toothpicks in the U.S.
- Highly renowned horror writer Stephen King’s books are set in Maine. Originally from Maine, Stephen King has set his novels like Pet Sematary, It, and Salem’s Lot in small Maine towns.
- The Bumblebee is The official state insect of Maine.
- In the 1870s being just 15 years old, Chester Greenwood a native of Farmington came up with the idea for earmuffs as a way to stay warm when he went ice skating.
- The state was the first to ban the sale and manufacture of alcohol in 1851 thus Maine is known as “The Birthplace of Prohibition.”
- in 1912 L.L. Bean was founded by Leon Leonwood Bean and it’s headquartered at Freeport, Maine, the very place of its inception.
- Maine has a ton of bizarre museums dedicated to the study of “hidden” or “unknown” animals like Yetis, Bigfoot, and Lake Monsters like the International Cryptozoology Museum located in Portland, the telephone museum in Ellsworth, the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum in Jonesport, and also Portland’s Umbrella Cover Museum.
History Of National Maine Day:
National Maine Day has been observed since 2017. However, no Presidential claims are declaring Maine Day as a National holiday.