Margaretta Days Festival
Annual Hannah Weston 10 Mile Run
And 3 Mile Walk
Registration 0630-0745 Center of Lifelong Learning UMM
Ph- 255-1404
Awards (No Nonsense) - 1st 3 Males, 1st 3 Females

The Margaretta Days Festival celebrates the 232nd Anniversary of the 1st Naval Battle of the
American Revolution between the Unity and the Margaretta, often called our "Lexington of the Sea".

In early June 1775, the men and women of the fledgling settlement of Machias found themselves on the horns of a difficult dilemma hard on the heels of the news of Lexington & Concord.

In order to obtain critical supplies, the settlers had to have their lumber shipped to Boston to build barracks for British troops. If they refused, they faced hunger and the wrath of Lieutenant Moore, commander of the armed British vessel Margaretta, which sat in the harbor, its guns leveled at their homes. If they complied, they betrayed the American cause. They chose to fight!