Everything about Estcourt Station Maine totally explained
Estcourt Station, Maine (elevation: 671 ft, pop. 4) is a
hamlet in Big Twenty Township, in northern
Maine's
Aroostook County. It is the
northernmost point in Maine and in
New England.
Estcourt Station is located on the
International Boundary between Maine and
Quebec, at the southern end of
Lake Pohenegamook. It derives its name from the adjacent village of
Estcourt, which is part of the larger municipality of
Pohénégamook.
Estcourt Station consists of several houses, some of which were built before the International Boundary was properly surveyed through the area (see
Webster-Ashburton Treaty) and which the border now divides. There is also a general store and a small gas station (which has recently closed). The community doesn't have public road access to the rest of Maine, although an extensive network of limited-access privately owned logging roads (maintained by forestry companies) extends south of the community into the northern part of the state.
Instead, Estcourt Station's houses, store and gas station access Rue Frontière, a street on the Québec side of the border. Estcourt Station uses
Quebec's
418 area code for telephone service and is connected to
Hydro-Québec for
electricity. The community also receives
drinking water and other municipal services from neighbouring Pohenegamook on the northern side of the border.
Canadian National Railway's transcontinental main line between
Halifax and
Montreal passes immediately north of Rue Frontière.
There are
border control stations on both sides of the International Boundary, although they're only staffed for several hours per day, usually for processing logging trucks which access the northern Maine woods to haul timber to local Quebec saw mills.
Michel Jalbert incident
In October 2002, there was an "unfortunate" border incident (referred to as such by Secretary of State
Colin Powell, below) that implicated
Michel Jalbert, a Pohénégamook resident, who was
imprisoned for three months in the United States after purchasing gas at Estcourt Station's gas station outside of the U.S. Customs Service's normal operating hours.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stated that Mr. Jalbert was a convicted felon (he was convicted of a minor vandalism charge at age 19) and in illegal possession of a firearm; he was reportedly preparing for the local deer hunting season and had a rifle in his truck.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Estcourt Station Maine'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://estcourt_station__maine.totallyexplained.com">Estcourt Station, Maine Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
