Greed and a wild imagination created Norumbega, Bangor's 'city of gold'

You'll believe anything if you want it badly enough

A 16th century map of the northeastern coast of what is now the U.S. and Canada. “Norumbega” lies roughly where Bangor is today.

In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors and colonizers in South America believed that somewhere out in the continent’s vast jungles, mountains and grasslands there lay the city of El Dorado. The legendary “city of gold,” con…