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Castine voters approve name change for Negro Islands CASTINE Upper and Lower Negro Islands will be no more. Eventually. Voters at Castine’s annual Town Meeting Saturday approved initiating the process of changing the names in a split vote. Town Manager Shawn Blodgett said “the result was 44-33 in favor of changing the names of the two islands.” Upper Negro Island is privately owned while Lower Negro Island is owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Now the Board of Selectmen will form a committee to get ideas for potential names for the islands. Those options would go on the ballot in November. ....
Castine in July 2014. When Castine residents go to Town Meeting on Saturday, they ll be asked whether the town should consider seeking a name change for two islands whose murky history is raising thorny questions about race and white privilege. Upper Negro Island and Lower Negro Island lie near the Castine side of the Bagaduce River, across from Brooksville. Johanna Barrett, who owns Compass Rose Books in Castine, says she and others started trying to find out more when, inspired by Maine s recent bicentennial, they began delving into the town s history. The islands were probably stopping points for free Black loyalists prior to the American Revolutionary War. But that still hasn t been established firmly, she says. ....
Castine to consider Negro Island name change CASTINE Voters headed to the May 8 Town Meeting will decide if they want to initiate the process of changing the name of Negro Island. The island has borne the name for hundreds of years and is actually two small islands connected by a sandbar in the mouth of the Bagaduce River off Castine. Upper Negro Island is in private hands while Lower Negro Island is owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. The area is popular with kayakers and Lower Negro Island has a short hiking loop and a campsite. It’s not clear how the island got its name, but the local lore that it was part of the Underground Railroad is a myth, said Lisa Simpson Lutts, the executive director of the Castine Historical Society. ....