Editing Bangor, Maine (section)

==Name and pronunciation==
Founded as Kenduskeag Plantation in 1791, Bangor was incorporated as a town in 1834. The name Bangor is said to have been taken from a Welsh hymn tune.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ballou |first=Maturia Murray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTsKH9k8rrYC&dq=BANGOR+MAINE+ORIGIN+NAME+CITY&pg=PA360 |title=Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion |date=1853 |publisher=F. Gleason |language=en}}</ref> It is also the name of [[Bangor, Gwynedd]], the oldest city in Wales.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

The final syllable is pronounced ''gor''. In 2015, local celebrities and business owners recorded the YouTube video "How to Say Bangor",<ref>{{cite web|last=Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications|title=How To Say Bangor, Maine — "We Are Bangor"
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q9hAAIS-c|website=YouTube|date=21 Jan 2015|access-date=12 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Burnham|first=Emily|title=Bangor, agrees with "We Are Bangor" video – it's -GOR, not -GER|url=http://hashtagmaine.bangordailynews.com/2015/02/20/the-internets/bangor-wales-agrees-with-we-are-bangor-video-its-gor-not-ger/|website=Bangor Daily News|date=20 Feb 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904073213/http://hashtagmaine.bangordailynews.com/2015/02/20/the-internets/bangor-wales-agrees-with-we-are-bangor-video-its-gor-not-ger/|archive-date=4 Sep 2020|access-date=27 Dec 2015}}</ref> which was sung to the tune of "[[We Are the World]]".