Who is The Northern Most Resident Of The State Of Maine?

Anybody who has spent various seconds a map of the USA can inform you that Maine is likely one of the northern most states within the nation.  We’re, nevertheless, removed from being THE most northern state.  Alaska crushes us in that division.

Though Maine as a complete is taken into account fairly distant, the crown of Maine affords a complete ‘nother degree of distant!  A lot of Aroostook County (AKA The County) is an enormous, sparsely populated wilderness that’s dotted by very small cities.  Alongside Route 1, these cities are join by first rate roads, however within the distant areas the connection is through previous logging roads.

It’s in one among these very small Aroostook County cities the place we discover the northern most resident of the State of Maine.

In accordance with an article within the KJ, the individual dwelling farthest north within the State of Maine is a 67 12 months previous veteran named Steve Stahlman.

He’s the only real resident of a really small village named Estcourt Station.  The city, which is known as by a close-by Canadian railway depot, is within the higher left hand nook (also called the northwest nook) of the state.  His house is so near the Canadian border that the street resulting in his home jumps backwards and forwards throughout the border a number of instances earlier than he reaches his home.

A century in the past, when logging was a significant trade in Northern Maine, there have been about 100 residents of the city.  By the Sixties, there have been fifty residents.  Now Stahlman is the one full time resident of the city.

Not like a lot of the tales we hear concerning the lone resident of a city, the place the individual grew up within the city and refused to go away when everybody else did, Stahlman has solely lived in Estcourt Station for just a few years.  After his father died in 2015, he determined he needed to relocate to someplace cooler (he had been dwelling in Alabama).  As a youth, he had hung out in New Hampshire and determined that Maine was shut sufficient.

Primarily based on the KJ article, he appears to like dwelling in his personal distant piece of Maine.  Nevertheless, since 2020, he has been coping with a little bit of an issue.  Till the pandemic hit, he had been getting mail twice per week.  As a price slicing measure, the USPS made the choice through the pandemic to discontinue mail service to his city.  They’ve, nevertheless, provided him a free put up workplace field in a close-by city.  Sadly, that city is a 38 mile drive down logging roads, or a 60 mile drive on paved roads (if he cuts via Canada).  At present, he’s petition his politicians with a view to attempt to get the postal service to renew mail service in Estcourt Station.