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Presque Isle, Maine
Presque Isle is the commercial center and largest city in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 9,317 at the 2014 census. The city is home to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Northern Maine Community College, Husson University Presque Isle,〔http://www.husson.edu/presque-isle-campus〕 Northern Maine Fairgrounds, The Aroostook Centre Mall, and the Northern Maine Regional Airport.
Presque Isle is the headquarters of the federally recognized tribe, the Aroostook Band of Micmac.〔("Tribal Directory." ) ''National Congress of American Indians.'' Retrieved 1 May 2013.〕
==History==
The first pioneers, who were British Loyalists, reached the area in 1819 hoping to obtain land for lumber. Though, border disputes between in the United States and Great Britain over the area made it impossible for pioneers to gain titles for the land. In response, the neighboring now Canadian province of New Brunswick gave out patents for pioneers to live on the land but not claim ownership or sell it. By 1825 surveyors traveling along the Aroostook river noted that twenty families lived along it and noted that while agriculture was present, all of the family employed most of their time towards lumber.
The boundary dispute slowed development in the area, but the government of Massachusetts which governed the territory at the time, saw the territory as theirs and encouraged the development of settlements in northern Maine by offering land grants and mill privileges in the 1820s. The first American to settle in the area was Dennis Fairbanks in 1828 who gained ownership over the land under the provisions set up by Massachusetts and later Maine which gained statehood, both in 1820.
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