HISTORY
of
PISCATAQUIS COUNTY, MAINE
From its Earliest Settlement to 1880.
By Rev. Amasa Loring.
"The hills are dearest, which our childish feet
Have climbed the earliest; and the streams most sweet
Are ever those at which our young lips drank -
Stooped to their waters o'er the grassy bank."
Whittier.
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Published
Portland, Me:
Hoyt, Fogg & Donham,
1880
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. - |
Introduction, Design, Sources of help |
9 |
CHAPTER II. - |
Situation, Extent, Boundaries |
13 |
CHAPTER III. - |
Natural scenery, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers |
15 |
CHAPTER IV. - |
Natural resources, Farming land, Timber,
Waterpower, Quaries, Mines |
21 |
CHAPTER V. - |
Sales, Grants, Surveys |
25 |
CHAPTER VI. - |
How, When, By whom, first entered, Blood,
Townes, Chase |
28 |
CHAPTER VII. - |
DOVER, Proprietors, First settlers, A.
Blood, Townes, Dows, Longleys, Lambert, Dwelley,
Chamberlain, Dea. Rowe, Incorporation,
Grist-mill, Factory, Shire-town, Edes' paper, Railroad, Business
and Professional men. |
34 |
CHAPTER VIII. - |
SEBEC, Sale, Mills, First settlers,
Incorporation, Dr. Boynton, Village, Professional
men. |
60 |
CHAPTER IX. - |
MILO, Purchase, First settles,
Incorporation, Mills, Growth, Professional men |
66 |
CHAPTER X. - |
SANGERVILLE, Water-power, First settlers,
Mills, Incorporation, Leading men, Lost child, Growth,
Meeting-house, Clarks, Factory, Col. Oaks, Bursely,
Professional men. |
73 |
CHAPTER XI. - |
ATKINSON - Purchase,
First settlers, Dr. Snow, Incorporation, Library,
Crosby, Mills, Blake's disappearance, Elder
Harvey. |
90 |
CHAPTER XII. - |
GUILFORD, Water power, Purchase, First
settlers, Incorporation, Schools, Minister, Orchards, Leading
men, Villages, Bridges, Fatal accident, Growth, Factory,
Railroad, Gold mine, Physicians. |
95 |
CHAPTER XIII. - |
FOXCROFT - Purchase, First settlers, Mills
built, Chamberlain & Bacon removed, First Sabbath
meeting, Incorporation, Distiller, J. & M. Bradbury,
Court held, Forbes family, Bridge built, S.
Chamberlain, Holmes, Mr. Williams, Academy, Mayo's
factory, Professional men. |
109 |
CHAPTER XIV. - |
BROWNVILLE - Sale, First settlers, Mills
built, Dr. Wilkins, Rev. H. May, Incorporation, Traders,
Slate quarries. |
135 |
CHAPTER XV. - |
WILLIAMSBURG - Proprietor, First
settlement, M. Greenleaf's book and map, Incorporation,
Preaching, Division, W. Hatch, M. and E. Greenleaf,
Hemmingway's disappointment, Barnard, Soil,
Water-power, First settlers, Incorporated, Slate quarries,
Unincorporated |
140 |
CHAPTER XVI. - |
ABBOT - First settlement, Mill, Douty &
Oakes, Gower, Incorporation, Upper bridge, Fatal
casualties, Other mills, Railroads, Lower bridge. |
147 |
CHAPTER XVII. - |
MEDFORD - Water-power, First settlers,
Incorporation, Kilmarnock, Gen. Boyd. |
160 |
CHAPTER XVIII. - |
PARKMAN - First settlers, Mills, Pingree,
E. Andrews, Soule, Other mills, Incorporation, Elder
Hall on temperance, Dr. Parkman, Pease's mills,
Professional men. |
163 |
CHAPTER XIX. - |
BINGHAM PURCHASE, Wellington, First
settlers, Mills, Incorporation, Kingsbury |
170 |
CHAPTER XX. - |
BLANCHARD - First entrance, Rafting,
Plundering, Purchase, Incorporation, Change, Railroad |
174 |
CHAPTER XXI. - |
MONSON - Early settlers, Mills built,
Cong. church, Incorporation, Dea. Goodell, A. Greenwood, Dr.
Davison, Post-office, Store, Dea. Robinson, Meeting
house, Kidder's swindle, Academy, Fires, Slate,
Semi-centennial, Hardships, Fatal accident, Physicians. |
180 |
CHAPTER XXII. - |
ORNEVILLE - Purchase, Settlement, Mills
built, Incorporation, Embarrassment, Judge Orne, Elder Horne,
Elder Lord, Name changed, J. A. Hoxie |
196 |
CHAPTER XXIII. - |
GREENVILLE - Grant, Settlement, Mills
built, Steamboat, Incorporation, Growth |
201 |
CHAPTER XXIV. - |
SHIRLEY - Sale, Settlement, Mills,
Incoropration, School land, Store, Annexation, Wilson, Grant,
Proprietors, Settlement, Mills, Elliotsville, Proprietors,
Settlers, Incorporation. |
206 |
CHAPTER XXV. - |
UNINCORPORATED PLACES, Bowerbank,
Proprietors, Settled, Howard, Sale, Settlers, Mills, Katahdin
Iron Works, Grant, Thomas and Davis, Smith,
Pingree, Hinkley & Edgerly. |
215 |
CHAPTER XXVI. - |
STIRRING EVENTS, Indian scare, March to
Bangor, Cold seasons, Great fire. |
222 |
CHAPTER XXVII. - |
ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES: Baptist,
Congregationalist, Free Baptist, Methodist, Universalist,
Christian Baptist, Adventist |
233 |
CHAPTER XXVIII. - |
TEMPERANCE REFORM, Moral suasion,
Washingtonianism, Prohibition |
262 |
CHAPTER XXIX |
MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS, Companies,
Regiments, Officers, Trainings and musters, Our warriors,
Revolutionary, Of 1812, Mexican war, Civil war |
269 |
CHAPTER XXX. - |
FRATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS: Free Masons, Sons
of Temperance, Odd Fellows, Good Templars, Grangers |
270 |
CHAPTER XXXI. - |
MISCELLANEOUS: Steadman the imposter,
Railroad accident at Low's bridge, An old time anecdote,
Uncle John and the bear, The colonel and the ensign,
Professional and educated men, county officers up to 1880 |
282 |
CHAPTER XXXII. - |
CONCLUSION |
299 |
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