On July 21, 2001, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the inaugural chapter meeting garden reception for the Majabigwaduce Chapter NSDAR was held at the home of Joan and Jim Lippke, Brooksville, Maine. A large gathering of family and friends witnessed the new members taking the Oath of Membership.
Majabigwaduce was the Penobscot name, meaning “large tideway river,” for what is now known as the Bagaduce River at and above Castine. This river is fifteen miles in length and separates Brooksville from Castine, Penobscot and Sedgewick. The whole course of the river, along the town line which separates Brooksville on the west, from Castine, Penobscot and Sedgewick on the north and east, is about fifteen miles – all of it salt water except Walker Pond, which twice each day is emptied and filled again through the Narrows.
Indian Place-names Of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast, Fannie Eckstorm – University Of Maine At Orono – 1978, pp. 193-198.
Looking Across to Castine – ca. 1885 Left: Lawrence’s Bay; Center: Blacks Cove; Right: Dodge Point Photo from “Maritime History of Brooksville” by Capt. LeCain W. Smith
Site of the Battle of Castine which is also known as the Penobscot Expedition, a twenty-one day battle that ended both disastrously and disgracefully for the Americans on August 14, 1779.