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Longfellow - The Student's Second Tale; The Baron of St. Castine, Tales of a Wayside Inn
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Gardner G. Deering - Shipwreck,
5-Masted
Schooner, Smith Cove, West Brooksville, ME,
approximately 500 feet off north shore
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Castine News - Topix - Local
news for Castine, ME continually updated from thousands of sources on
the web
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History of Castine ME -
Named for the Baron de Saint-Castin,
Castine was once the capital of all French Acadia, which included all
the lands of what is now French-speaking Canada
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Castine Historical Society
- The Castine Historical Society is
dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating information and
materials related to the history of the Castine-Bagaduce River area
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Jim Hatch - Site Webmaster
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Castine native Roy Bowden
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USS Castine - Gunboat 1894-1921 -
USS Castine, a 1177-ton Machias-class gunboat
built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in October 1894. Her initial
service took her through the Mediterranean and around Africa to South
America. She operated in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean areas
through 1898, and then was transferred to the Far East until 1901. Thereafter,
her duty stations were in the Atlantic, the Caribbean and off Central
America, including several years service as a submarine tender
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Tenders - USS Castine - Upon the outbreak of
the Spanish-American War, Castine was called north to take her place
on the blockade surrounding Cuba in March 1898. She served in the
force which accompanied the Army's transports to Cuba, and remained
in the Caribbean until the close of the war
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