Adopted by the Legislature of 1909．The picture on Maine’s blue flag is the state coat of arms（盾徽），which is used on the state seal．Representing Maine’s agricultural and maritime industries are a farmer on one side of the shield and a seaman on the other．The lower portion of the shield is a of water，and the upper section sky．A huge pine tree stands for Maine’s forests that cover 90percent of its land．Below the tree lies a moose（［动］驼鹿（产于北美的一种大鹿）），now the state animal，indigenous（本土的）to the state and symbolic of Maine’s reverence for wildlife．A North Star glows above the shield，as Maine was the northernmost state at the time of its adoption into the Union．
State Song州歌
State of Maine Song
Grand State of Maine，proudly we sing
To tell your glories to the land
To shout your praises till the echoes ring
Should fate unkind send us to roam
The scent（香味）of the fragrant pines，
The tang（特殊气味）of the salty sea will call us home．
Oh，Pine Tree State
Your woods，fields and hills
Your lakes，streams and rockbound
（被岩石包围的，多岩石的）coast
Will ever fill our hearts with thrills
And tho’we seek far and wide
Our search will be in vain（徒然）
To find a fairer spot on earth
Than Maine！Maine！Maine！
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Eastport is the most eastern city in the United States．The city is considered the first place in the United States to receive the rays of the morning sun．
2．In Wilton there’s a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens（（罐头）蒲公英嫩叶）．
3．Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable（［语］音节）．
4．Maine is the only state that shares its border with only one other state．
5．Bath is known as the City of Ships．
6．Joshua L．Chamberlain born in Brewer received the only battlefield（战场，沙场）promotion to General during the Civil War．He was also the last Civil War soldier to die of wounds incurred in the War．
7．The White Mountain National Forest covers nearly 800，000acres，the forest covers a landscape ranging from hardwood forests to the largest alpine（高山的）area east of the Rocky Mountains
8．Aroostook County at 6，453square miles covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island．
9．Approximately 40millions pounds（nearly 90percent）of the nation’s lobster（龙虾）supply is caught off the coast of Maine．
10．Maine produces 99％of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States．
11．Maine’s earliest inhabitants were descendants of Ice Age（［地］冰河时代（在新生代的第四世），冰期，冰川期）hunters．
12．Portland was first temporarily（．临时）selected as the state capital．In 1832the capital was moved to the centrally located site of Augusta．
13．In 1641America’s first chartered city was York．
14．Acadia National Park is the second most visited national park in the United States．
15．West Quoddy Head is the most easterly point in the United States．
16．Augusta is the most eastern capital city in the United States．
17．Mount Katahdin is the state’s highest point at 5，268feet above sea level．
18．Togus was the first Veteran’s Hospital in the United States．The facility was founded in 1866．
19．An unsuccessful attempt at establishing a permanent English settlement in the New World was at the location now known as Popham Beach．Sir George Popham led the expedition in 1607．
20．90％of the country’s toothpick（牙签）supply is produced in Maine．
21．Portland is the birthplace of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow．
22．Senator Margaret Chase Smith stood up in the senate and gave the famous Declaration of Conscious speech，speaking out against the McCarthy era．Senator Smith was the first female presidential candidate．
23．Author Steven King is a resident（居民）of Bangor．
24．Former President George Bush has a summer home in Kennebunkport．
25．Freeport is the home to the L．L．Bean Company．
26．The skating scene in the movie “The Preacher’s Wife”was filmed in Deering Oaks Park in Portland．
27．The chickadee is the official state bird．
28．Maine lies farther northeast than any other state．
29．Maine’s nickname as the Pine Tree State comes from the pines that once dotted the state’s forests．
30．With a total area of 33，215square miles the state covers nearly as many square miles as the other five New England states combined．
31．The state flower is the white pine cone and tassel．
32．The coastline boasts so many deep harbors it is thought all the navies in the world could anchor in them．
33．Maine lobsters have won international fame for their flavor and contribution to the culinary（烹调用的）world．
34．The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport houses numerous historic buildings and marine memorabilia（大事记）．
35．Fort Knox erected in 1844is a state historic site originally built to protect the Penobscot River Valley from British naval attack．The fort was constructed from granite（花岗岩）from nearby Mount Waldo．
36．Numerous lighthouses（灯塔）dot the Main coast including Fort Point Lighthouse at Fort Point State Park in Stockton Springs and Grindle Point Lighthouse on Isleboro．
37．The Sailor’s Memorial Museum in Isleboro features displays depicting life at sea．
38．Located in Thorndike Village，the Bryant Stove Works and Museum displays an eclectic collection of antique cast iron stoves，parlor（客厅的）heaters，roadsters（跑车）and touring cars．In addition，the museum features antique layer pianos，pipe organs and music boxes，calliopes（汽笛风琴），nickelodeons（一种旧式自动点唱机），and hurdy－gurdys．
39．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was considered the most influential poet of his day．The writer was born in Portland，on February 2，1807．His most popular works include “The Courtship of Miles Standish”，“Evangeline”and“Hiawatha”．
40．The nation’s first sawmill was established near York in 1623．
41．York became the nation’s first incorporated city in 1642．
42．The first ship build by English colonists in Americas was launched on the Kennebec River in 1607．
43．The first naval battle of the Revolutionary War（美国之革命战争）was fought off Machias in 1775．
44．Maine was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state on March 15，1820．
45．Maine’s blueberry crop is the largest in the nation．
46．The honeybee（蜜蜂）is the official state insect．
47．Maine contains 542，629acres of state and national parks．
48．Edmund S．Muskie became the first Democratic United States senator ever elected by popular vote in Maine．He was also elected governor for two terms．He was born in Rumford．
49．Eastport is the only United States owned principality（公国，侯国）that has been under rule by a foreign government．It was held from 1814to 1818by British troops under King George following the conclusion of the War of 1812．
50．Maine’s government entities（实体）are comprised of 16counties with 22cities，435towns，33plantations，424unorganized townships and 3Indian reservations．
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