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Best-selling author Stephen King, who lives in Bangor, owns radio station WZON-AM in Bangor.
The Annual Maine Morgan Horse Show is held in Bangor, in August.
Hildreth Broadcasting built Studio City in May 1962, at the corner of Hildreth and Rice Streets
in Bangor.
Maine's first radio broadcast originated in a Bangor Church in 1922.
Jack Benny broadcast his show live from Maine at Dow Air Force Base in Bangor on
January 3, 1943.
The Bowlodrome in Bangor was billed as "the finest establishment of its kind in America,"
so advertised in 1916.
Don A. Sargent, of Bangor, invented the snowplow.
Bangor was the nation's first city to adopt military training in its public schools, in 1862.
Gertrude Southard, of Bangor, and Alice Skolfield, of Lewiston, were the first two women in the
nation to cast ballots in a national contest.
Toothpicks were invented in Maine, by Charles Forster of Bangor, soon after the Civil War.
Bangor was the world's busiest lumber port during the 1850's.
The Thomas Hill Standpipe is a shingled Bangor water tower built of wood, 110 feet tall, with
an observation deck.
The first telegraph lines were strung from Portland to Bangor in 1848.
In 1911 most of the city of Bangor was destroyed by fire.
Maine cornet virtuoso Robert Brown Hall was given a gold-plated cornet in Bangor in 1884.
Bangor Playwright Owen Davis won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for the drama Icebound.
Bangor novelist Stephen King's favorite pen name is Richard Bachman.
Calligraphic artist Jan Owen also played string bass with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Born in Bangor in 1839, artist Anna Eliza Hardy is best known for her tabletop still lifes.
In 1980, Yvonne Jacquette painted the three-panel mural in the post office in Bangor.
English literary luminary Oscar Wilde stayed at the Bangor House in 1882.
Novelist Stephen King is Bangor's best-known resident Boston Red Sox fan.
Jack McAulliffe, of Bangor, held the amateur world featherweight boxing title in 1885.
Karen Colburn, of Bangor, won the Girls' National Free-Style Ski Championship in 1975.
Tabitha King (of Bangor) wrote the book "Playing Like a Girl," which is about Cindy Blodgett,
Maine's best-ever girls basketball player, who played for Lawrence High School in Fairfield.
The baseball teams that played in the Centennial Fourth of July celebration games in Bangor
in 1876 were the Mutuals of Saint John and the Bangor Orients.
You are likely to see the Snowy Owl at Maine's Bangor Airport during the winter.
Town Nicknames: Lumber City, Twin Cities with Brewer, ME, Queen City Of The East, Queen City
Town Nicknames: Greatest Lumber Market In The World, Metropolis Of The Northeast
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