How this historic home inspired the name for Bangor's Howard Street
Hard Telling Not Knowing each week tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine...
Hard Telling Not Knowing each week tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine culture and history, both long ago and recent, large and small, important and silly. Send your questions to eburnham@bangordailynews.com . By 1770, there were just a few hundred families of European descent living in what is now Bangor. The handful of homes located in the settlement then known as Kadesquit consisted of log cabins clustered along the banks of the Penobscot River, west of the Kenduskeag Stream, that were quickly assembled by settlers eager to get sawmills operating.