
Maine island gains national recognition on historic register
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Malaga Island, located off the coast of Maine, once home to a mixed-race community forcibly removed by the state, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
In late 1911, during the administration of Maine Gov. Frederick W. Plaisted, several islanders were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded. The state then bought Malaga Island from a local family and ordered the remaining residents to vacate the island by July 1912. Nearly a century later, then-Gov. John Baldacci would issue an apology on the island.
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