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The oldest continuous English Settlement in New England... Plymouth NOT
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Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:22:12 -0400
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In planning a late autumn vacation to Maine, I came across "Castine" Maine and its environs, and was amazed to see that (1) some authorities call it the oldest continuous English Settlement in New England, predating the good Pilgrims of Plymouth by half a decade, and (2)  Ta Da!!!!!!!!  Our own Capt. John Smith chartered the Castine pennsula in 1614.  A small world indeed.  (I wonder if he had a trumpeter with him.)

Reading on, it looks like that area was later occupied by the Dutch and the French, which raises some questions in my mind about "the oldest continuous..... English...."  Any scholars out there know anything about all that?

Randy Cabell

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