Maine
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Maine was the twenty-third state to enter into the union.
Notable people from Maine
Joshua Chamberlain, a Union officer during the Civil War who quite possibly saved the Union in the Battle of Gettysburg with his "swinging gate maneuver", was born in Brewer and served as Maine's governor.
Stephen King, a wildly popular horror novelist, is a lifelong resident of Maine and sets many of his novels in the state.
E.B. White, a writer best known for his children's books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, lived in North Brooklin.