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In Farmington there was a normal school in a state of high prosperity. The average attendance was a little over one hun- dred. The object of this school is the thorough training of teachers for their professional labors. It had an excellent phil- osophical and chemical apparatus, and a good library. During the past ten years one thousand young men, and one hundred and ninety-eight young women, have graduated at this institu- tion.
At Castine there is another normal school. The attendance in the spring term of the year 1874 was one hundred and thirty, in five classes. The whole number in attendance during the year was three hundred and eleven. The regular course of study embraced three years. The diligent student in this time
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could become well qualified to teach in the common schools. In one of the late reports we read the following encouraging statement : -
" The earnest, able young men and women of Maine have never before had such inducements offered them to become teachers. The workers and the work are becoming appreciated. Wages, commensurate with the culture and industry of the teacher, are now offered for his services. We have not been able to supply the demand for first-class teachers. The free high schools are calling for our best teachers, and the demand will increase."
This high standard of qualifications required in the teacher will have an influence on all grades of schools. The work of educating the children of the State will be in the hands of those who have been systematically trained to the calling, and who will enter upon it with an intelligent enthusiasm which will call forth the best energies of the pupils. The many interesting questions now engaging the attention of prominent educators - some of them of vital importance to the future welfare of the nation - will be treated by the graduates of these schools with a candid and far-reaching consideration, and the whole subject of education will be elevated to its proper position in the minds of the public.
Even from a material point, this attention to the cause of popular education will have its reward. In the close competi- tion for the commerce of the world now going on between the leading nations of Europe and America, every power of the mind is being cultivated, and brought into action ; new schools are being founded, and old ones re-organized ; and the unedu- cated peoples will fall behind in the struggle for pre-eminence. This State, with its great facilities for manufacturing and me- chanical enterprises, and its educated population, will take a foremost position among the progressive communities of the day. It has certainly reason to congratulate itself upon the success which has attended the working of its normal schools. The thousands of young men and young women who have graduated from the schools at Farmington and Castine have gone into all parts of the State, and are now exerting an influ- ence, silent, but none the less effective on its school-system.
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The town of Castine presented the State with a fine lot of land, for the erection of a new building, about . the year 1872. The school was then in successful operation. In the year 1873
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NORMAL SCHOOL, CASTINE.
the present beautiful edifice was completed. Gov. Perham and this council, with many distinguished friends of education, attended the dedicatory exercises. An audience of five hun- .dred was assembled in the hall, and yet it was of capacity to
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accommodate one hundred more. Speeches were made by the governor, and by other citizens of Maine and of other States.
This is one of the best schoolhouses in the State. The region around is occupied by a religious, intelligent, industrious community, who can well appreciate the value of education. The building can accommodate two hundred scholars, and has already become a powerful instrument in the intellectual advancement of the thriving surrounding towns.
MAINE CENTRAL INSTITUTE, PITTSFIELD), ME.
In the prosperous village of Pittsfield, about twenty-three miles east of Waterville, there is a successful school, called the " Maine Central Institute." The regular course of study occu- pies four years, and young men and young women are alike admitted. A board of twenty trustees presides over the inter- ests of this seminary, and it is intended to make it a first-class institution. Latin and Greek, French and German, are taught, with the higher branches of mathematics, geology, astronomy, mental philosophy, and moral science. The terms of tuition are low, and board can be obtained in the village for about two dollars a week.
· Thus an accomplished education is offered to the sons and
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Church.
Goddard Hall.
Dining Hall.
Hersey Hall.
Seminary Building.
WESTBROOK SEMINARY.
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daughters in all the farm-houses of that rural district. The institute includes a college preparatory course, a normal depart- ment, and an academic department. There were in the year 1874, in the preparatory course, eighty-four pupils ; in the nor- mal, thirty-one ; in the academic, one hundred and eight ; mak- ing a total of two hundred and twenty-three.
And yet in the unbroken wilderness, which for countless gen- erations had covered these hills and vales, not a solitary white man had reared his cabin until the year 1794. In 1815, when about a dozen families had opened clearings in the forest, widely separated from each other, the region was elevated to the dig- nity of a plantation. In 1819 it was incorporated as a town by the name of Warsaw, which name was changed to Pittsfield in the year 1819.
At Vassalboro' there is quite a celebrated school, called the Oak Grove Seminary, to which a normal department is attached. The school year consists of three terms of thirteen weeks each. An elevated course of study is pursued. In 1874 there were eighteen pupils here preparing for teachers. In Bucksport there is an institution called the Conference Seminary and Commercial College. It has a faculty of five teachers, and about two hundred scholars.
Westbrook is a beautiful town, which was a part of Falmouth until the year 1814. Upon Stevens' Plains in this town, there is located a literary institution of high order and superior accommodations. It is called Westbrook Seminary, and consists of three principal buildings, which will accommodate a large number of students. The institution is well patronized, and sends out yearly into the community many well-educated pupils prepared to be useful in all the walks of common life. The accompanying illustration shows vividly the progress the State has made since, scarcely a century ago, the Indians reared their wigwams on these plains, and pursued their game through the glooms of an almost unbroken forest.
A State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was opened at Orono, in the year 1868. It is under State patron- age, and supervised by a carefully selected board of trustees, of which Gov. Coburn in the year 1874 was president. The stu-
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dents represented every county in the State. The institution stands high in the estimation of the community, and is every year regarded with increasing favor the several branches of a practical education. The number of students in the year 1874 was one hundred and twenty-one. The institution is partially military in its character, though its principal object is to give the pupils the best instruction in agriculture and the mechanic
RESIDENCES OF COL. EBENEZER WEBSTER, MRS. MARTHA (WEBSTER) TREAT, AND PAUL D. WEBSTER, EsQ.
arts. It proposes to do this by giving every young man an opportunity practically to apply the theoretical teaching he receives, by labors on the farm and in the shop. In this way he can also partially defray the expenses of his education. No student is admitted under fifteen years of age. He is subject to an examination in arithmetic, geography, English grammar, his- tory of the United States, algebra as far as quadratic equations, and five books in geometry.
The design of this important institution is not merely to pre- pare one understandingly to work upon the farm, but to give
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an education which shall aid the student in all industrial pur- suits. Gov. Washburn writes, -
AUSTIN SCHOOL 1873.
RUSSELL" RICHARDSON.SE
DISTRICT SCHOOL HOUSE, KITTERY, ME.
" Considering the locality of the college in its relation to the whole State, its proximity to the broad and fertile region of the Aroostook, a county containing a larger number of acres of farming lands, of the finest quality, than any other five counties in New England; considering the dif- ferent kinds of soil on the college farms, furnishing opportunities for a great variety of experiments; and considering, finally, the surpassing beauty of
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, ORONO, ME.
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its site, and its proximity to what I have ever regarded as, beyond question, the most charming inland village in the State, so far as the outward setting of landscape and scenery is concerned, - I think it must be universally con- ceded that the location of the college was fortunate and wise."
PU __ ELL.RICHARLISON.S.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE, WINTHROP, ME.
There are many other literary and scientific institutions scat- tered throughout the State, to which we have not space to allude. In previous pages we have spoken of the principal col-
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leges, and of several of the more important private schools. In . all the leading towns there is a high school for advanced pupils. These buildings, when contrasted with the schoolhouses of fifty years ago, may be called palaces. We give pictures of two of them, - the Grammar School House in Winthrop, and the District School in Kittery, to illustrate the general style of these structures.
In the interesting and very comprehensive little book by Hon. John Neal, entitled " Portland Illustrated," we find the following notice of an important institution called The Maine General Hospital : -
" This institution, established in love to that small part of the great human family of sufferers in whom we have a special interest, occupies what were known as the Arsenal Grounds, on Bramhall's Hill, of two and a half acres.
" More than fifty thousand dollars have been raised by private subscrip- tion among ourselves in the city ; while the State has contributed twenty thousand dollars conditionally, together with these Arsenal Grounds. These conditions having been more than fulfilled, the buildings are now so near completion as to make it sure that before long we shall have a magnifi- cent charity in full operation to be thankful for .*
" The central building is five stories, with a mansard roof; and there are, as you see, four pavilions, with an amphitheatre, a boiler-house, and a kitchen. From every window there is a wide, rich, and beautiful prospect of the whole surrounding country; and, from every part, either a v of the sea and the cove, or a view of the White Mountains of New Hr af sixty miles away, with all the intervening villages and elevations, wo" 1, and waters; and being always open to the sea-breezes on the one side, and to the winnowed atmosphere of our Switzerland upon the other, a store-house of health and vitality, the sick and languishing may be sure of nature's best and surest help at all seasons."
The writer is conscious, that, in the endeavor to give the his- tory of Maine in one volume, many important facts or events may have been omitted, which some will regret, and which per- haps he may regret when his attention is called to them. But he has, according to the best of his judgment, selected those inci- dents which he has thought would be most interesting and
* Since the above was written, the hospital has been opened to patients, and is now in successful operation.
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MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL, POP
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instructive to the general reader. And he is sure that this nar- rative truthfully presents Maine in an attitude of which all her sons and daughters may be proud.
Life is everywhere a battle. It is in vain for any one to escape toil and trouble. But, all things considered, there is probably not on this globe a more favored, comfortable, and happy population than that of Maine.
It is true that cold breezes sweep its surface in winter; but these blasts, with healing on their wings, drive all malarious exhalations from the land, give elasticity to the mind, buoyan- cy to the spirits, and invigoration to all physical energies. The - soil is certainly not so rich as in some of the renowned prairies and valleys of the West ; but the water is cool, and pure and clear as crystal. The forests afford an abundance of every variety of valuable timber; and the streams, born among the mountains, and rushing over their rocky beds, invite to all the branches of manufactures.
The flood of foreign immigration is not pouring into Maine as into some other parts of the Union. But this saves the State from a vast amount of inebriation, vagabondage, crime, and pau- perism. And those who do select Maine as their home gener- ally come from those countries of Northern Europe where intel- ligence and piety prevail.
This renders the community in Maine in a remarkable degree homogeneous. The society is in a high degree intelligent, moral, and social. And thus it'is that Christian churches arise in every village, that intemperance can be arrested as scarcely anywhere else, that schools and colleges are multiplied, and intelligence and morality are widely diffused. It would be difficult to find in any portion of our land more happy homes than are found in Maine.
POPULATION AND VALUATION, 1860 AND 1870.
ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
1860.
1870.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Auburn
.5,344
1,234
$1,224,070
6,169
1,591
$2,918,101
Durham
1,620
412
459,376
1,350
356
482,861
East Livermore
1,029
258
301,702
1,004
255
388,680
Greene
1,224
303
338,402
1,094
315
439,629
Lewiston
7,424
1,217
2,426,374
13,600
2,258
8,813,629
Lisbon
1,376
355
404,016
2,014
451
741,092
Leeds
1,390
330
333,035
1,288
420
456,348
Livermore
.1,597
355
430,779
1,467
404
524,267
Minot
1,799
403
546,581
1,569
384
610,511
Poland
2,746
584
517,671
2,436
552
765,960
Turner
2,682
708
748,218
2,380
537
815,684
Wales
602
155
188,642
556
153
229,359
Webster
890
237
312,015
939
218
406,434
Total.
29,726
6,551
$8,230,892
35,866
7,894
$17,592,555
AROOSTOOK COUNTY.
Amity
302
53
$28,884
311
82
$44,676
Benedicta.
307
413
69
41,741
Bridgewater
491
94
44,372
605
123
83,263
Dalton
606
128
68,830
445
87
98,531
Easton
320
522
106
69,879
Frenchville
1,851
274
80,600
Fort Fairfield
901
167
75,975
1,893
360
276,800
Fort Kent
545
688
113
40,865
Hersey
107
25
24,493
Hodgdon
963
202
118,467
989
210
197,832
Houlton.
2,035
360
240,000
2,850
457
681,646
Limestone
161
263
64
27,647
Linneus
785
200
77,270
1,008
213
117,917
Littleton
543
108
53,932
700
151
94,257
Ludlow
287
64
24,548
371
77
57,888
Lyndon.
297
57
26,264
1,410
256
155,702
Madawaska
585
1,041
148
65,155
Mars Hill
201
399
78
45,811
Masardis.
190
34
19,801
169
40
39,479
Maysville
665
115
57,952
758
163
140,057
Monticello
483
96
54,369
760
166
138,585
New Limerick ..
226
47
26,712
308
76
43,450
Orient
233
36
17,712
219
39
35,000
531
1,034
172
65,357
Grant Isle
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THE HISTORY OF MAINE.
1860.
1870.
Population. Polls.
Estates.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Presque Isle
723
161
79,874
970
182
180,786
Sherman .
701
171
109,240
Smyrna.
165
28
24,793
159
37
35,698
Washburn
318
449
100
63,021
Weston
394
85
42,230
394
86
49,846
PLANTATIONS AND TOWNSHIPS.
Alva
486
496
98
35,093
Bancroft
304
63
23,810
177
54
39,513
Castle Hill.
237
67
20,053
Crystal
250
56
32,115
Greenwood.
47
Hamlin
558
96
28,218
Haynesville
169
165
21
26,558
Island Falls
183
63
37,904
Macwahoc
202
170
43
41,407
Mapleton
444
110
28,707
Wade.
473
Reed.
72
54
Wallagrass
297
St. Johns
127
Westfield
76
17
20,869
Perham.
79
26
12,905
Moro .
121
36
22,685
Molunkus
61
61
Van Buren.
616
922
115
46,233
Glenwood
185
44
27,408
Oakfield
559
116
25,068
Cyr.
376
Woodland.
174
37
14,474
No. 9, R. 6.
..
100
29
19,340
Portage Lake ....
124
Letter F, R. 1 .. ..
67
Letter B, R. 2. ...
46
Letter C, R. 2 ....
6
No. 1, R. 5
38
Dyer Brook
129
Merrill
105
118
No. 7, R. 5
16
No. 8, R. 5.
29
No. 9, R. 5 ..
25
Chapman
40
No. 11, R. 1
274
49
2,3050
No. 11, R. 6
51
Buchanan.
69
Nashville .
30
No. 15, R. 7 ..
6
No. 15, R. 6 ..
2
No. 17, R. 6. .. . .
83
Letter K, R. 2 .. ...
132
No. 18, R. 10.
51
Uninc'd townships
above St. Francis
156
Wild lands
695,561
1,155,591
Total.
22,479
2,098
$2,221,462
29,609
5,212
$4,992,285
Eagle Lake
143
76
Sarsfield
St. Francis
253
533
CENSUS AND VALUATION.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
1860.
1870.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Baldwin.
1,227
282
$212,918
1,101
292
$256,225
Bridgton.
2,556
617
697,148
2,685
667
855,197
Brunswick.
4,723
766
1,761,904
4,687
916
2,505,806
Cape Elizabeth . .
3,278
538
757,632
5,106
1,007
1,784,831
Casco.
1,116
258
212,695
998
258
241,486
Cumberland. .
1,713
390
455,540
1,626
399
511,920
Deering, incorp. Feb. 16, 1871; taken from Westbrook.
Falmouth
1,935
423
621,978
1,730
443
688,527
Freeport
2,792
682
821,460
2,457
594
912,053
Gorham.
3,252
732
1,086,704
3,351
774
1,445,968
Gray
1,767
408
360,080
1,738
431
480,780
Harpswell.
1,603
401
446,288
1,749
430
454,601
Harrison.
1,251
294
241,072
1,219
307
304,635
Naples
1,219
288
233,327
1,058
278
268,645
New Gloucester ..
1,654
404
665,946
1.496
407
848,905
North Yarmouth. 1,076
244
454,776
940
222
523,086
Otisfield .
1,199
2S5
255,904
1,099
269
298,582
Portland
26,341
4,244
21,866,000
31,413
7,814
29,439,257
Pownal.
1,053
264
345,889
981
264
378,355
Raymond.
1,229
274
167,260
1,120
305
229,121
Scarborough.
1,807
457
537,478
1,692
410
705,728
Sebago.
95S
227
149,623
803
221
175,550
Standish.
2,067
510
451,689
2,089
535
492,709
Westbrook.
5.113
1,099
1,834,050
6,583
600
1,097,048
Windham .
2,635
535
786,758
2,428
540
1,014,877
Yarmouth.
2,027
476
930,841
1,872
468
1,155,591
Total
75,591
15,098
$36,361,035
82,021
19,812
$48,942,323
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Avon.
802
162
$120,977
610
141
$149,693
Carthage
503
121
63,557
486
124
96,070
Chesterville.
1,110
276
236,446
1,011
241
2SS,353
Eustis.
301
342
80
57,558
Farmington
3,106
689
998,814
3,251
753
1,448,735
Freeman
666
157
129,137
· 608
158
146,090
Industry
827
187
180,096
725
181
209,319
Jay.
1,680
400
367,722
1,490
358
497,029
Kingfield.
670
152
99,451
560
137
110,910
Madrid.
491
97
44,821
394
108
55,764
New Sharon.
1,731
399
427,866
1,451
389
481,434
New Vineyard ...
864
187
143,387
755
189
228,S12
Phillips.
1,698
369
323,701
1,373
365
375,576
Rangeley
238
65
43,579
313
74
75,239
Salem
396
83
71,715
307
71
64,432
Strong
754
173
152,959
634
165
220,794
Temple.
726
150
113,509
640
156
161,981
Weld.
1,035
262
176,847
1,130
261
245,260
Wilton
1,920
428
477,543
1,906
437
595,260
PLANTATIONS AND TOWNSHIPS.
Jerusalem
32
Letter E.
23
$13,066
93
21
$12,931
Perkins.
168
149
35
23,458
Rangeley
46
45
No. 6.
31
14
15,246
961
2,194,096
534
THE HISTORY OF MAINE.
1860.
1870.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Dallas
159
Sandy River.
177
111
Washington.
62
12
6,000
Lang . . .
36
11
19,924
No. 4, Range 3.
25
No. 4, Range 2
8
9
Green Vale. .
9
10,556
Coplin .
31
23,235
Getchell.
134
No. 1, Range 3. .
90
69
No. 2, Range 3.
39
No. 3, Range 2.
25
Wild lands.
91,650
172,900
Total.
20,403
4,380
$4,285,843 · 18,807
4,518
$5,791,659
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Amherst.
384
83
$50,046
350
89
$57,276
Aurora.
277
60
40,272
212
48
32,052
Bluehill.
1,993
431
358,176
1,707
432
397,620
Brooklin .
1,043
235
136,436
966
252
186,899
Brooksville.
1,428
303
198,998
1,275
322
238,987
Bucksport.
3,554
780
975,137
3,433
804
1,219,881
Castine
1,357
269
764,571
1,303
258
461,343
Cranberry Isles.
345
73
53,710
350
86
61,514
Deer Isle.
3,590
738
362,520
3,414
749
417,211
Dedham
495
113
94,388
448
106
102,752
Eastbrook
221
43
29,354
187
49
39,288
Eden
1,247
250
158,464
1,195
290
196,499
Ellsworth
4,658
847
896,299
5,257
1,097
1,233,199
Franklin.
1,004
211
123,056
1,042
219
168,348
Gouldsborough.
.. 1,717
374
180,822
1,709
434
224,690
Hancock
923
215
133,236
974
244
163,904
Lamoine.
142,449
Maria ville
458
82
49,106
369
109
65,742
Mt. Desert.
916
196
129,839
918
226
158,069
Orland.
1,787
374
312,543
1,701
407
374,390
Otis ..
210
49
22,538
246
60
26,407
Penobscot.
1,557
326
193,375
1,418
329
227,356
Sedgwick
1,263
259
192,018
1,113
274
197,706
Sullivan
862
207
135,994
796
210
141,954
Surry
1,319
294
164,022
1,242
283
209,137
Tremont
1,768
407
192,984
1,822
419
262,353
Trenton.
1,400
300
240,667
678
323
260,729
Verona
399
95
44,143
352
81
51,075
Waltham
374
80
44,092
366
92
57,727
PLANTATIONS AND TOWNSHIPS.
Hog Island.
8
6
Long Island.
188
177
Swan Island.
492
93
21,829
451
99
27,805
No. 7
114
23
11,184
69
20
13,010
No. 10.
32
10
No. 21.
54
56
No. 33, Mid. Div ...
96
102
No. 28.
12
No. 32
13
19
-
612
156
535
CENSUS AND VALUATION.
1860.
1870.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Population. Polls.
Estates.
Harbor Island. .
22
13
Bear Island ..
11
13
Bradbury Island.
6
Spruce Head Island
18
22
Eagle Island.
55
30
Beach Island. ..
. ...
12
9
Butter Island. .
7
12
Marshall's Island ..
6
5
Pickering's Island.
11
3
Eaton Island ......
1
Pumkin Island.
4
Mt. Desert Rock ...
6
No. 8 ..
25
Hackatosh Island.
6
Wild lands.
210,875
279,150
Total.
37,757
7,810
$6,520,694
36,495
8,311
$7,554,073
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Albion
1,554
342
$304,850
1,356
323
$376,791
Augusta.
7,609
1,279
2,460,004
7,808
1,706
4,881,135
Belgrade.
1,592
378
341,044
1,485
374
461,468
Benton :
1,183
264
175,526
1,180
310
248,123:
Chelsea
1,024
200
181,550
1,238
177
184,980
China
2,719
525
555,976
2,118
557
650,588'
Clinton
1,803
365
270,141
1,766
403
428,812.
Farmingdale.
896
191
333,359
859
194
387,428
Fayette.
910
228
222,583
900
252
282,697
Gardiner
4,487
811
1,723,561
4,497
970
2,179,243
Hallowell.
2,435
552
1,085,742
3,007
552
1,222,295'
Litchfield.
1,702
402
475,149
1,506
383
496,908.
Manchester.
813
193
295,792
732
160
320,219:
Monmouth.
1,854
447
501,989
1,744
403
592,068
Mt. Vernon.
1,464
369
315,186
1,252
328
397,034
Pittston
2,619
566
619,711
2,353
531
648,353.
Readfield
1,510
336
505,807
1,456
314
589,171
Rome
864
180
128,417
725
167
149,731
Sidney
1 782
463
508,912
1,471
355
649,582
Vassalborough
3,181
669
737,920
2,919
696
1,130,348:
Vienna
878
201
151,024
740
200
200,015
Waterville
4,390
870
1,348,330
4,852
901
1,904,017
Wayne ..
1,194
280
256,032
938
257
344,692
West Gardiner
1,294
275
298,496
1,044
256
.
Windsor.
1,54S
313
274,001
1,266
284
262,212
Winslow
1,739
363
409,712
1,437
326
470,002
Winthrop.
2,338
567
769,018
2,229
575
1,122,839'
Clinton Gore
219
43
13,135
257
52
28,000
Unity plantation. .
54
. 14
10,388
68
17
14,360
Total.
.55,655
11,684
$15,273,355
53,203
12,024
$21,004,034
KNOX COUNTY.
Appleton.
1,573
379
$253,347
1,485
347
$284,278;
Camden.
. 4,588
927
1,062,22S
4,512
1,129
1,497,631
Cushing.
796
198
103,547
704
203
132,839
Friendship.
770
202
123,506
890
217
140,267
..
359,029'
536
THE HISTORY OF MAINE.
1860.
1870.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Population.
Polls.
Estates.
Hope .
1,064
231
241,094
907
211
251,650
North Haven
951
193
146,446
806
178
152,594
Rockland .
7,316
1,752
2,614,861
7,074
1,989
3,419,355
South Thomaston.
1,615
324
343,462
1,693
379
408,145
St. George.
2,716
553
343,152
2,318
527
403,342
Thomaston.
3,218
656
2,053,573
3,092
620
1,854,110
Union.
1,957
.
481
510,737
1,701
432
533,660
Vinalhaven.
1,667
324
198,803
1.851
402
264,960
Warren.
2,321
553
909,254
1,974
494
834,610
Washington.
1,662
349
270,616
1,276
329
289,857
Martinicus Isle pl.
55
17,539
277
58
19,585
Muscle Ridge pl. . . 183
94
20,659
263
94
20,659
Total
32,716
7,271
$9,212,824
30,823
7,609
$10,507,542
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Alna.
805
231
$223,310
747
199
$233,610
Boothbay.
2,857
577
403,933
3,200
726
642,819
Bremen
907
168
122,966
797
202
162,437
Bristol
3,356
686
422,580
2,916
683
488,116
Damariscotta.
1,366
294
601,198
1,232
273
669,719
Dresden.
1,247
321
328,474
990
248
316,717
Edgecomb.
1,112
231
179,225
1,056
230
202,428
Jefferson.
2,121
474
404,908
1,821
416
420,003
Newcastle.
1,791
414
648,991
1,729
352
697,981
Nobleborough.
1,438
294
261,745
1,150
282
287,867
Somerville.
606
117
65,047
505
110
86,685
Southport
708
143
130,455
684
165
149,200
Waldoborough
4,568
997
1,010,447
4,174
1,076
1,164,382
Westport.
798
154
150,664
699
176
180,392
Whitefield.
1,883
418
392,809
1,594
356
441,346
Wiscasset. .
2,318
562
806,749
1,977
466
689,554
Marsh Island.
Muscongus Island.
142
Monhegan Island. .
46
23,740
145
42
24,345
Total.
.27,860
6,127
$6,177,241
25,597
6,002
$6,857,610
OXFORD COUNTY.
Albany
813
184
$140,847
651
156
$167,592
Andover.
814
164
91,153
757
181
114,712
Bethel
2,523
579
580,330
2,286
533
712,871
Brownfield
1,398
328
237,713
1,321
328
249,166
Buckfield.
1,705
415
504,794
1,494
428
554,673
Byron
323
59
32,241
242
64
42,195
Canton.
1,025
247
221,361
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