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Welcome to
Piscataway County, Maine
History & Genealogy

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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