On this date in 1839, an agreement between Maine's governor and Britain's lieutenant governor of New Brunswick forestalled hostilities over a border dispute in northern Maine.
The so-called "Bloodless Aroostook War" cost one human life - that of U.S. Army Pvt. Hiram Smith, who died of unknown causes while building a road.
(Source: "Aroostook Becomes a County," by Jere Green, from The County: Land of Promise, Anna Fields McGrath, editor. Norfolk, Va.: The Donning Company, 1989)
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