Unity is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,099 at the 2010 census. The town is the service center for the northern portion of Waldo County. Outside of Waldo county, it is best known as the home of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, its Common Ground Country Fair and Unity College. Unity College was founded in 1965 to offset the economic effects of the declining chicken farming industry. As of 2007, the college is the town's largest employer.
History
When originally settled by Quakers, the town was known as Twenty-Five Mile Pond Plantation. The name came from its being located on a pond twenty-five miles from Fort Halifax in Winslow. The name was changed to Unity upon incorporation as a town in 1804. In 1898, the Village School was opened. It remained in operation until 1953 when it closed and a new elementary school was built.
In 1996, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) purchased 200 acres of land in Unity, where it is now based. The MOFGA-run Common Ground Country Fair moved with the organization and annually brings more than 50,000 visitors to the town.
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine. At the time of European encounter, several Algonquian-speaking peoples inhabited the area. The first European settlement in Maine was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate, deprivations, and conflict with the local peoples caused many to fail over the years.
The budget crisis, which has the main partners in the government of national unity (GNU) — the ANC and DA — at loggerheads, has raised the prospect of closer relations between the ANC and the EFF, and ...
The Maine Legislature’s environment committee will hear testimony on the bill on Monday ...Support for this reporting is provided by the UnityFoundation, a fund at the Maine Community Foundation and donations by BDN readers.
VALDOSTA — It’s time to experience the soulful sounds of blues music and the taste of blueberries again! DowntownValdostaMainStreet will host the 3rd annual Bluesberry Festival at UnityPark Amphitheater on April 11 and 12.
Ballerina...The Director also trains young girls to be ballerina-assassins, and one young ballerina (played by Unity Phelan) is shown rehearsing in the scene. That dancer, Eve Macarro, is the main character in Ballerina, now played by de Armas.
For his part, the Syrian foreign minister, who arrived in Baghdad earlier on Friday, stressed that it is essential to maintain unity between Damascus and Baghdad, saying that his visit to Iraq mainly ...
... rejected by a key party in the unity government ... It accused the ANC, the main party in the uneasy unity government installed after the May 2024 election, of not heeding warnings against tax increases.
"I came here as a nurse, and I wasn't aware of the process ... "The main message is that we are different, but that together in unity we are stronger if we are connected, not divided, and there is strength in all our diversity." ... .