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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are on vacation in northern Maine

The couple celebrated their five-year wedding anniversary hiking around Mount Katahdin.

In this March 2011 file photo, Mount Katahdin rises in the background as a school bus makes its rounds in Millinocket, Maine. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan visited the town this weekend. Robert F. Bukaty / AP

By Associated Press

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MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have spent a day hiking around Mount Katahdin in Maine and talking with local residents on their anniversary weekend.

Zuckerberg said they met Saturday with former mill workers, teachers, small business owners, a librarian and a trucker in the town of Millinocket.

He said in a Facebook post that he was struck by their commitment to rebuild their community after the closing of paper mills that once drove the local economy.

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Zuckerberg has been traveling the country with a goal of visiting all 50 states.

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He and his wife were in Bangor for their fifth wedding anniversary Friday before continuing north to the Katahdin region. He posted a photo of his wife sporting a “Got Moose?” baseball cap.

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