Every Lake
Maine
More tidal shoreline than California, and a north woods bigger than the rest of New England.
Maine in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Maine.
About Maine
Maine's coast is the whole point of the map. A drowned, ice-scoured shore turns 228 miles of straight-line distance into thousands of miles of tidal shoreline, with Casco and Penobscot bays, Mount Desert Island and Acadia, and the granite headlands running out to Quoddy Head, the easternmost point in the country. Inland the land climbs through lakes and spruce to Katahdin at 5,269 feet, where the Appalachian Trail ends, and the North Woods run unbroken to Canada. Sixteen counties, several of them larger than whole states downcoast.
Maine was part of Massachusetts until it entered on March 15, 1820 as the 23rd state, admitted as the free half of the Missouri Compromise. Augusta, at the head of navigation on the Kennebec, became the capital in 1827. The northern border was not settled until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 ended a long standoff with Britain over the Aroostook. The board hangs on that coastline, with US-1 running every inch of it and I-95 shooting straight up the interior.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 3 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
