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291 Concord, Somerset, D&, rd "from North Ansen
101 Convene, Cumberland Co .~ 105 Cooks/ Cumberland Co, rd from Casco
900 Coopera Mills, Lincoln, E 10 100 Corea, Hancock Co.
1170 Corinne, Penobscot, F 8 vy 1042 Corinth, Penobecet, F & rd from Kenduskeag # 984 Cornish, York, A 11
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200. Costigan, Penobscot; H 8 100 Consina Ialand, Cumberland C 11
* 5Tl Cranberry, Istes,- Bancock I 10 112 Crawford, Washington, K " Crescent Surf, York, B 12 (Sommer P. O.)
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D 10, r d from Litchfield 100 Bouth Livenpore, Andreeog. glo, Ce
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& North Madison, Somerset,D &, r d from Madison's North Mirtville, Hancocky 300 North Houmouth, Koaneboo CO. 150 North Montode Wilde Fa, rd from: Brook 150 North Hey burg : Penobrook Q 8, Tổ thơm Cande!' 225 North / Newcastle, Lincoln, .1.8.10 47 560 North New Portland, Bofner- 150 North Newry, Orford, A 9 100 North Nobleboro, Lincoln ' K 10 21 North Norway, Oxford, B 10, r d from Norway' 43 Nerth Orland, Hancock, H 9 140 North Orrington, Penobscot, G &, r d from South Orring. ton
115 North Palermo, Waldo, E 9 108 North Parle, Oxford, B10 200 North Parsonfield, York, A 11 106 North Penobscot, Hancock, H 9 50 North Perham, Aroostook, 1 2, r d from Caribou 190 Norto Perry, Washington, L 7 75 North Pittston, Kennebec, D 10, r d from Gardiner * 545 Northport, Waldo, F 10
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. 1865 Scarboro, Cumberland, B 12 27 Schoudle, Plscataquin, F 6 100 Sealrove, Hancock, H 10 250 Scal Harbor, Hancock, 1 10 . 949 Searamont, Waldo, F 9 · 1349 Searsport, Waldo, G 9 65 Schaalde, Washington, J 9 55 Seawall, Hancock, I 10 . 576 Sebago, Cumberland, A 11 125 Sebogo Lako, Cumboriaud. BIT 7] Sebasco, Sagadaboc Co. * 593 Sebec, Piscataquis, F 7
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* York, Yet, B 13 5.0 York Bend, York, B D 5 Yorkelite, York Co. (Suin- mer P. Q 250 York Cornir, York, A 13 Ww York Villuge, York, A 13 Zircon, Oxford, A 9,r d trom Ruinfort Falls
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18 East Surry, Hancock, He 100 Fast Troy, Waldo, F 9, r d from. Troy 65 Enat Turner, Androaooggin. C 10.31
AD West Fryilinrg, Oxfor l. A 10'! + 3 West Gullner, Kemsebec,, D 10, r Arom Gardiner 10 West Garland, Pensoseet. F7, r dieum Dexter 30 West Golem, Cumberland, B 11, r & tom Gorbea DO West Gouinboro, Hancock, West Grup, Cumberland,B 11 100 West Hangden, Fenobscot, G 8, rd from Hampden Corner
100 Pemequid Point, Lincoln Co. (Spinmer P. O.) · 1662 Pembroke, Washington, L 8 · 1150 Pahobecot, Hancock, H 9 * 850 Perbam, Aroostook, 12 Washington, L 8 * 713 Poru, Oxford, B 9 23 Phalr. Aroostook, J 8 674 Phillips, Franklin, B 8
150 Northport Comp Ground. Waldo, G 9 (Summer P. O.] 15 North Pownal, Cumberland. C 11, r d from West Pownal 176 North Raymond, Cumber- Jand, B 11 111 North Humford, Oxford, AN 200 North Scarboro, Cuinter- loud, O 12, rd from West. brook 153 North Scoramont, Waldo, F 9 90 North Searsport, Waldo, G 9, rd from Mooroe
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
STATE REFERENCE
Page
A Brief History of Maine
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Governors of Maine 60
United States Senators from Maine.
62
Representatives to Congress from Maine since
Adoption of Constitution
64
Government of Maine, 1907-8 73
State Institutions
76
List of Post Offices in Maine.
80
Railroads of Maine, Mileages and Fares
91
Eastern Steamship Company's Lines.
112
Vital Statistics 113 Cities and Towns of Maine. 114 Plantations of Maine 144
Agricultural Statistics
148
Maine Newspapers.
151
Maine Court Directory
156
Maine Churches.
159
Table of Contents Continued
PART II
CENSUS OF SIDNEY 17
CENSUS OF VASSALBORO 57
CENSUS OF ALBION 135
CENSUS OF CHINA
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PART III
HISTORY OF SIDNEY
Early Settlement.
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Incorporation and Town Statistics 2
Facts of Interest 3
Churches
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Town Officers
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Civil War Enlistments.
HISTORY OF VASSALBORO
Early Settlers 12
Facts of Interest 13
Town Officers 15
Churches
19
Civil War Soldiers
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Table of Contents Continued
HISTORY OF CHINA
Early Settlement. 24
Incorporation and Town Statistics 25
Facts of Interest. 27
Churches
28
Civil War Soldiers 31
Educational Items 33
Selectmen of China
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HISTORY OF ALBION
Early Settlers
38
"Puddle Dock" 39
Incorporation and Statistics. 40
Early Buildings 40
Postoffices and Postmasters 42
Selectmen
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Town Clerks. 45
Albion Grange 46
Church History and Pastors. 46
Facts of Interest.
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Civil War Enlistments.
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THE STATE CAPITOL AT AUGUSTA,
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HON. WILLIAM P. FRYE, LEWISTON. UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MAINE SINCE 1883. .
THE LATE JAMES W. BRADBURY. UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MAINE, 1847-53.
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THE LATE SPEAKER REED. A MAINE MAN WHO BECAME THE WORLD'S GREATEST PARLIAMENTARIAN.
CHIEF JUSTICE MELVILLE W. FULLER. A SON OF MAINE WHO HOLDS THE HIGHEST JUDICIAL POSITION IN THE WORLD.
HON. WILLIAM T. COBB, ROCKLAND. GOVERNOR OF MAINE, 1905-9.
GEN. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN, BRUNSWICK. THE "HERO OF LITTLE ROUND TOP." EX-PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, GOVERNOR OF MAINE, 1867-71.
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THE LATE ELIJAH KELLOGG, HARPSWELL. A NOTED MAINE PREACHER AND AUTHOR.
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THE LATE HON. JOSEPH H. MANLEY, AUGUSTA.
HON. CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD, ROCKLAND. Ex-ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SECOND MAINE DISTRICT.
HON. JOHN FREMONT HILL, AUGUSTA. GOVERNOR OF MAINE, 1901-5.
HON. EDWIN C. BURLEIGH, AUGUSTA. Ex-GOVERNOR OF MAINE AND MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM THIRD MAINE DISTRICT.
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. ORONO.
THE LATE ANDREW P. WISWELL, ELLSWORTH. JUSTICE MAINE SUPREME COURT, 1893-1900; CHIEF JUSTICE, 1900-06.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE CAMPUS, BRUNSWICK,
BATES COLLEGE CAMPUS. LEWISTON,
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SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, AUGUSTA.
WALKER ART BUILDING. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, BRUNSWICK.
A BIT OF MAINE LAKE SCENERY. COBBOSSELCONTEE.
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THE LATE HON. J. MANCHESTER HAYNES, AUGUSTA.
THE FAMOUS "LONGFELLOW PATH." THROUGH BRUNSWICK PINES.
HON. A. I. BROWN, BELFAST. Secretary of State.
SOLON CHASE, CHASE'S MILLS. A Widely Known Son of Maine.
HON. LUCILIUS EMERY. ELLSWORTH. Chief Justice Maine Supreme Court.
THE CHAPEL, OAK GROVE SEMINARY, VASSALBORO.
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GEN. SELDEN CONNOR. AUGUSTA. Governor of Maine. 1876-9, and United States Pension Agent Since 1897.
HON. LLEWELLYN POWERS.
Ex-Governor of Maine and Member of Congress from the Fourth Maine District.
THE MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY, KENT'S HILL.
THE COLBY COLLEGE CAMPUS, WATERVILLE.
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HON. EUGENE HALE, ELLSWORTH. UNITED STATES SENATOR SINCE 1881.
COBURN CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, WATERVILLE.
COLBY COLLEGE, WATERVILLE. NORTH COLLEGE AND CAMPUS, LOOKING SOUTH.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MAINE.
BY
John Clair Minot.
All of us who are sons and daughters of Maine are justly proud of the place held in history by our native State, for we know that in all the great sisterhood of the Union there is no State with a past which gives its children more reason for pride. While students and writers for a long time neglected the early history of Maine, they have in recent years made more general use of the wealth of material here, and gradually the world has realized that back at the beginning of things on this continent Maine was playing a part worthy of a State whose record of achievements has been so long and brilliant in later generations.
There is no need to delve into the misty traditions of the visits of the Northmen to our shores. "There is good reason to believe that they explored the shores of New England centuries before Columbus was born, but all that belongs to legendary lore rather than to the realm of recorded history. But after the New World became well known to Europe the shores of Maine were visited by the earliest explorers, and this section soon became the center of the long and bloody struggle between England and
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France for the possession of the continent. More than one early voyager sailed up the Penobscot River in search of the fabled Norumbega with its wonderful columns of crystal and silver.
Not until the beginning of the 17th century did the explora- tions have definite results. The voyages of Gosnold (1602), Pring (1603), Weymouth (1605), Champlain (1605), and John Smith (1614) were the most notable in their effect upon Euro- pean knowledge of this section and in stimulating attempts at colonization. In 1604 a French expedition under De Monts planted a colony upon a little island at the mouth of the St. Croix River, then the only settlement of Europeans in all America north of the Spaniards in Florida. The colony was abandoned a year later, but it was nevertheless the real begin- ning of New France. The real beginning of New England was in the colony planted at the mouth of the Kennebec in August, 1607, by George Popham and 120 others sent out from England. by the Plymouth Company whose head was Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England.
They built a fort, which they called Fort George, and erected a church and a score of rude houses around it. This was the first English settlement in New England, but like the French colony at the mouth of the St. Croix it was a broken beginning. The rigors of a single winter, during which their leader died, disheartened the colonists, who were largely adventurers and seekers for wealth; and in the fall of 1608 they all returned to England. Part of them made the return voyage in a little pin- nace or shallop of 30 tons which had been built soon after their arrival, the first.shipbuilding venture in America and the begin- ning of the great industry which later made the Kennebec famed around the world. This craft was called the "Virginia of Saga- dahoc," this section being then known as the northern part of that vast and vague "Virginia" which Sir Walter Raleigh had claimed for England some 20 years earlier, and the lower part
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of the Kennebec being known as the Sagadahoc at this time and for a century or more later.
In this same year, 1608, French Jesuits landed upon Mount Desert and a few years later they were joined by others from France, but in 1613 the colony was wiped out of existence by an English expedition from Virginia under Samuel Argall. At this time and for many years later many English traders and fishermen were frequenting the coast of Maine. Their chief rendezvous was in that region which includes Pemaquid and Monhegan and the mouths of the Sheepscot, Damariscotta and St. Georges rivers. Most of them were mere adventurers, coming and going with the seasons, and making no attempts at permanent settlement until about 1625. In 1630 it is said that 84 families, besides fishermen, were residing along the coast of this region.
The permanent settlement at Pemaquid, which was later with its successive forts to be the scene of so much stirring history, dates from 1625-26. Sir Ferdinando Gorges received in 1622 a grant of territory stretching eastward from the Piscataqua . River, and within a few years Agamenticus, now York, Saco, Scarboro, Falmouth, Brunswick and Arrowsic were founded. Gorges had dreams of a city which should be the seat of great power and in 1641 Agamenticus became Gorgeanna, the first chartered city in America. In 1652 it was organized as a town and named for the English city of York, being the second town to be incorporated in what is now Maine. The first was Kit- tery in 1647.
· The part played by Maine in saving the Plymouth colony from destruction is a chapter of special interest. It was only the corn secured at Pemaquid and the neighboring islands which saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and later it was only by means of the profits of the fur trade maintained with the Maine Indians that Plymouth was able to free itself from the burdensome debt which it owed in England. The Plymouth
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traders established several posts along the coast and on the lower Kennebec, but the one most important and most perma- nent in character was that maintained from 1625 to 1662 at Koussinoc, at the head of the tide on the Kennebec where Augusta now stands.
The post stood where Fort Western was built a century later, in 1754, and here for a generation the men who came in the Mayflower were almost as much at home as in the streets of Plymouth. Few of us here in Maine have realized the close connection between Plymouth and ancient Koussinoc on the Kennebec. There is nothing legendary or uncertain about it, but it is a matter of authentic history that Myles Standish, John Alden, the Winslows, the Bradfords, the Howlands, the South- worths and others whose names are revered as those of the men who laid the cornerstone of our civilization, came here to the spot where Augusta now stands, not once but continually through a third of a century. The site of old Fort Western and its immediate vicinity was long trod by the same feet that consecrated Plymouth Rock. These Pilgrim Fathers lived in peace with the Indians, but left wholly to the French mission- aries, who came down through the wilderness from Quebec, the work of trying to civilize or Christianize them. When the game became scarce the post was abandoned.
The name of New England was given to this region by John Smith in 1614 on his voyage of exploration and trade along the coast. The name of Maine was early applied to this part of New England, as in the charter granted to Gorges by Charles I in 1639 when it is spoken of as "the Province or Countie of Mayne." The name, as is now generally accepted, came from speaking of it as "the main land" in distinction from the many islands along the shore. Massachusetts lost no time in bring- ing the Maine settlements under its authority, although the confusion in the charters and patents made trouble for many years. In 1652 all the towns as far east as Casco were annexed
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