New Sweden..

Midsommar Festival, held each year

  In 1870, in order to populate the state, Maine created an "Immigration Department"; headed by William W. Thomas, Jr. who had been Consul to Sweden for President Abraham Lincoln.  Mr. Thomas went to Sweden and convinced the first 51 people to immigrate to Maine.  The Town of New Sweden was formed, and eventually the Towns of Stockholm and Westmanland.
  These are agricultural areas today, and mostly successful farmers who still carry on some of the customs and celebration of Sweden.  Located in Aroostook County where the landscape and weather closely resemble parts of Sweden, of course by now they're all native born Americans who treasure their background, not unusual in the United States.

When they were "new" here they farmed with horses,

here potatoes are dug on row at a time.

This Lewiston Sun-Journal photo says it all.

Maine Towns