This tracker has been set up to solicit stamp donations to be permanently planted and make their debut for the "Weekend in Historic Searsport, Maine" event to be held in Searsport, Maine, in August of this year.
Searsport, Maine, was incorporated in the year 1845. I've discovered many others historical happenings and events that also occurred during that year:

1. Incorporation of Searsport, Maine
2. Self-rising flour patented
3. Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven", was published - Crafty Lobster - rec'd.
4. Congress authorized ocean mail contracts for foreign delivery
5. Florida became the 27th state to join the Union - mudflinginfools
6. James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th President of the U.S.
7. Rubber Band was patented - mudflinginfools
8. The first photo of the sun was taken
9. A homing pigeon completed a 11,000 km trip in 55 days - Team Awesome Pants
10. Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond - Team Awesome Pants
11. The first provisional stamps were issued
12. The first major league baseball team was organized - The NY Knickerbockers
13. The U.S. Naval Academy opens in Annapolis
14. Manifest Destiny - the expansion of the West begins - Angel Treads
15. Texas became the 28th state to join the Union - mudflinginfools
16. The Little Mermaid written by Hans Christian Anderson - Angel Winks - rec'd.

Please contact me and let me know which stamps you would be willing to carve from the above list. Thanks so much!

1. angel treads
2. Crafty Lobster
3. Angel Winks
4. Team Awesome Pants
5. mudflinginfools