Maine Town Histories

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General Bibliographies of Maine Town Histories

Except Liberty and Montville: see entries for Davistown Plantation

There are a number of sources listing town histories which will be cited below.  The most important of these is Maine a bibliography of its history, 1977.  Most of the important histories are included in this reference, but its contents are not available electronically.  The primary focus of The Davistown Museum is on the histories of towns adjacent to Liberty and Montville or within the capital region east of Cape Elizabeth.  Due to limited resources we are not attempting to collate an updated comprehensive listing of all Maine town histories.  However, since Haskell's bibliography was published n 1977, all citations not in Haskell or in our more selective bibliography are solicited.

Haskell, John D., Ed. (1977). Maine a bibliography of its history: Volume two of bibliographies of New England history. G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, MA.

• Readily available by visiting the Maine Historical Society, Center for Maine History Library on Congress St. in Portland, Maine as are many of the other articles, texts and histories cited in the Davistown Bibliographies.

Vickery, James B. (1965). A bibliography of local history: The town registers of Maine.

Williamson, Joseph.  (1896). A bibliography of the state of Maine from the earliest period to 1891, Volume 1 and II.  Maine State Library, Augusta, ME and the New England History Press, Somersworth, NH.  Reprinted in 1985. IS.

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Also check our links page for local historical societies.

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Specific Towns Acton

Fullonton, Joseph. (1847). The history of Acton, Me. W. Burr, printer, Dover, NH.

Addison

Addison Bicentennial Committee. (1997). Addison, Maine: A Bicentennial History, 1997. Self-published.

• Available for purchase from the Pleasant River Historical Society, Addison, ME 04606 for $10.

Hammond (see listing in the trades bibliography)

Albion

Wiggin, Ruby C. (date unknown). Albion on the narrow -gauge. Published by the author, Benton, ME.

Alna

Alna, Town of. (June 1983). Town of Alna: Annual report 1982-83: June meeting supplement. Self-published. IS.

Alna High School. (February 20, 1856). The student's memento. Vol. 1. Handwritten and bound. IS.

Palmer, Rundlette Kensell. (1979). A history of Alna Maine. Self-published?  IS.

Sewall, Rufus King. (1896). Centennial: Memorial services of  old Alna meeting-house: Alna, Maine, September 11, 1889. Emerson, Steam Printer, Wiscasset, ME. IS.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Maine History Sources: Antiquarian Authors bibliography.

Walker, Nell. (1970). A brief history of old Alna. Committee for Alna History, Alna, ME. IS.

Anson

Hatch (see listing under Industry)

Appleton

Pitman, J.A. (1929). The story of Appleton, Maine. Appleton Historical Society, Appleton, ME.

White, B.W. (undated). History of the West Appleton Road. Appleton Historical Society, Appleton, ME.

Augusta

Nash, Charles Elventon. (1904). The history of Augusta: First settlements and early days as a town. Charles E. Nash & Son, Augusta, ME.

North, James W. (1810). The history of Augusta, Maine. Clapp and North, Augusta, ME. Reprinted in 1981 by New England History Press, Sommersworth, NH.

Bailey Island

Video: Our fishing heritage. Harpswell Community TV, Minotaur Productions, RR5, Box 2352, Cundy's Harbor Rd., Brunswick, ME 04011.

Bath

Baker (see the primary Maine history bibliography)

Bangor

Crowe, Mike. (February 2003). All shook up. Fishermen's Voice. pg. 1, 6-7. IS.

• A description of the logging boom and logging related industries in Bangor in the 1800s.

Godfrey, John E. (1882). The annals of Bangor, 1769-1882. In: History of Penobscot County, Maine. Williams, Chase, and Co., Cleveland, OH. pg. 517-711.

Shaw, Richard R. (1994). Bangor. Distributed by Berwick Pub., Dover, NH.

Bar Harbor

Brechlin, Earl. (2002). Bygone Bar Harbor: A postcard tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Down East Books, Camden, ME.

Hadlock (see the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Prins (see the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Woodward, Maxwell G. (1983). Bar Harbor in its heydays: Recollections from memory. Published by the author, printed at Downeast Graphics, Ellsworth, ME. IS.

Beals

The American History Department of Jonesport-Beals High School. (undated). A pictorial history of the town of Beals, Maine. Publisher unknown. IS.

Belfast

Fitzgerald, Elizabeth, Ed. (1985). The Belfast fire department: A history. J. A. Black Co., Belfast, ME. IS.

Mosher, Elizabeth M. (1989). Early Histories of Belfast. Picton Press, Rockport, ME. IS.

• Includes: Annals of Belfast by William George Crosby (1874); Sketches of the Early History of Belfast by John Lymburner Locke (1856); History of Belfast From its First Settlement to 1825 by Herman Abbot (1825); and A History of Belfast by William White (1827). 4 volumes bound in one. 5,006 entry Every Name Index.
• "Two of the four histories listed above, Locke and Crosby, were published only in newspaper columns in the last century; the other two, Abbot and White, are exceedingly scarce in book form." (Picton Press).
• "In 1810 the number of inhabitants was 1259, and in 1820, two thousand and twenty six.  The population is rapidly increasing, as well as the employment of the useful classes." (White, pg. 257).
• White notes the following occupations: "Apothecaries 3--Booksellers  2--Bookbinder   1-Butchers  3--Brick-masons  6--Brickmakers  2--Block-maker  1--Barbers  2--C1ock-makers  2--C1othiers  2--Cabinet-makers  3--Chair-maker  1--Counsellors and Attorneys at law  10--Candle Chandler  1--Grocers  8--Housewrights  11--House-carpenters  4--Inn-holders  5--Jeweller  1--Mi11iners  5-Meat shopmen  2--Meat cartman  1--Ministers resident  3--Merchants  42--Printers  2--Painters  2--Physicians and Surgeons  6--Smiths  8--Sadd1e and Harness makers 3--Shoe-makers  10--Sheriff's officers  3--Shipmasters  7--Ship carpenters  15--Sail maker  1--School teachers  3--Tai1ors  3--Tanners and Curriers  3--Truckmen  2--Wharfingers  7--Whee1wright 1. The number of inhabitants is now estimated at 3000." (pg. 257-258).
• "Mr. Bradbury, of the Custom House, informs, that in 1825 'twenty-five vessels, mostly brigs, loaded at the port of Belfast, for foreign ports, nearly all for the West India Islands; their tonnage amounted to three thousand seven hundred and forty.  Their cargoes were generally the productions of the industry and soil of this and the neighboring towns.  The following were some of the principal articles of export--2,168,000 feet boards and scantling--744,000 shingles--63,000 staves--20,500 feet of oars--3,390 sugar box shooks--1,736 hhd. shooks--295 spars--478 boxes soap--160 bbls. pickled fish--46 hhds. and 480 boxes dried cod-fish--261 bb1s. potatoes--105 boxes of candles.'" (White, pg. 261 - 262).
• "It was about the year 1804 and '05 that troublesome times began to be experienced by the 'squatters' of Greene plantation, now known as Belmont.  As those who had unlawfully squat upon these lands refused no recognize the claims of the proprietors, writs of ejectment were accordingly issued against them.  Thos. Cunningham, then deputy sheriff, was ordered to serve these writs, and dispossess them of their assumed and invalid titles.  Before his arrival, word was received, and the alarm quickly spread throughout the plantation.  At this signal, they disguised themselves, and with weapons of defence awaited the appearance of the sheriff.  On his arrival, they surrounded him, and inquired the intent of his errand.  On informing them, he drew forth his precept, and began to read it to them.  The chief, advanced towards him, feigned ignorance of the language, and said, 'Me no summing.'--The sheriff then produced another writ, and commenced to read in personation of the Indian.  The chief then wished to examine the document to see if it was genuine and was what it purported to be.  On receiving it, he immediately destroyed it before the sheriff's face. Resistance was useless under such circumstances." (Locke, pg. 215).
• "At another time sheriff Cunningham went with a posse comitutus, when a melee ensued, and his horse was shot from under him.  At another time, the proprietors' agent, Maj. Joseph Pierce of Boston, was sent to make an amicable settlement with the squatters of Greene plantation and Montville; he was forcibly seized in the night, while at Mr. Everett's house in Montville, his portmanteau, supposed to contain his papers, burned, and he rode on a rail and dragged through the streets, when he was released under promise of quitting the place.  He immediately left for Belfast.  Several of the perpetrators were arrested and brought to Belfast, where they were held in custody in the Whittier house.  This was about the year 1809." (Locke, pg. 215).
• There was no Fourth of July celebration this year, but the editor of the Gazette glorified the place by the announcement that on the Saturday preceding the fourth there was 'hauled into the village on teams; as by actual survey, 136,086 feet of boards, 35 thousand of shingles, 3,789 staves, 1515 feet of oars;' a very good show for one days work fifty-two years ago." (Crosby, pg. 52).
• "The 22d of May [1824] was a 'white day' in our calendar.  The Steamboat Maine, the first whose paddle-wheels ruffled the waters of the Penobscot, arrived here.  There was a rush to the wharf to take a look at her, and a large party went on board soon after noon on an excursion to Castine." (Crosby, pg. 60).
• "The steamer was of about a hundred tons burthen.  The project of her owners was to run her regularly as a packet between Portland and Eastport, touching at this and other ports on the coast, connecting with a line which had been established between Bath and Hallowell.  She continued to ply rather irregularly between Portland, Bath and Eastport, touching at this port, during the season, under the command of Capt. Smith Cram, who had been for many years previously a resident in Montville, who was born in New Hampshire and died in California.  She went to Bangor occasionally, diverging from her regular route.  It will amuse the steamboat patrons of this day, perhaps, to learn that by the advertised notice of the arrival and departure of the boat 'passengers wishing to go in her are requested to leave their names at the store of Haraden and French, where they will find the boat's book.'" (Crosby, pg. 60).
• "'She was followed, June 3d, by the steam-brig New York, Thomas Rogers, master.  She was advertised to leave Boston on the 10th, 20th and 30th of every month, for Portland, Owls Head, Belfast and Eastport, inside the islands.  Persons wishing to take passage from this place were 'requested to leave their names at the Maine Hotel (S1eeper's)...'" (Crosby, pg. 60).
• "There was a mail stage running weekly this year [1825] between this place and Augusta, leaving Augusta every Wednesday morning and arriving here at evening of the same day, and returning the next day.  The tri-weekly stage from Portland was running,  leaving Portland at 4 o'clock a. m. of one day and arriving here at 10 a. m. of the next; the stage fare between the two places was $5.62." (Crosby, pg. 64).
• "A census of the inhabitants was taken in December; whole number 2,839, showing an  increase of 813 within the preceding five years.  There were then 171 dwelling houses within half a mile of the lower bridge." (Crosby, pg. 64).
• "There was a good amount of activity this year in trade and commerce, especially in the articles of cordwood and lumber, which were two important elements of wealth in and around this section of the county.  In one day in March there were hauled into the village 171 cords of wood on one road; as much or more, probably, on all the other roads." (Crosby, pg. 64).  Crosby is probably referring here to the Davistown road, the principal road to the market town of Belfast from the back country to the west.

White, William. (1827). History of Belfast with Introductory Remarks on Acadia. E. Fellows, Belfast, ME. http://books.google.com/books?id=xxshAQAAMAAJ&dq=history+of+belfast&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false

Williamson, Joseph. (1877). History of the city of Belfast, in the state of Maine, from its first settlement in 1770 to 1875. Loring Short and Harmon, Portland, ME. Reprinted in 1982 by the New England History Press. IS.

Williamson, Joseph and Johnson, Alfred. (1913). History of the city of Belfast, in the state of Maine, volume II, 1875-1900. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY. http://books.google.com/books?id=0RMwcEcYnlsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=williamson+history+of+the+city+of+belfast

Bethel

Lapham, William Berry. (1891). History of Bethel, formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890. Press of the Maine farmer, Augusta, ME.

Biddeford

Folsom (see listing under Saco)

Boothbay

Brown, Charlotte Beath. (1936). The old brick house and other stories. Boothbay Register Press, Boothbay Harbor, ME. IS.

Greene, Francis B. (1906). History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine 1623 - 1905 with family genealogies. Loring, Short and Harmon, Portland, ME. IS.

• One of the most eloquent and comprehensive of town histories, this text contains an excellent summary of the history of the Wawenoc Indians from the point of view of a 1905 writer utilizing Williamson as his primary source of information.  See the Native American: Principal sources bibliography for additional annotations from this important local history.

Rice, George W. (1938). The shipping days of old Boothbay from the Revolution to the World War. Portland, ME.  Reprinted in 1984.

Rumsey, Barbara. (1995). Hodgdon shipbuilding and mills: A documentary history of the first hundred years: 1816-1916. The East Boothbay Series, #1, Winnegance House and Boothbay Region Historical Society, Boothbay, ME. IS.

Rumsey, Barbara. (2000). Colonial Boothbay: Mid-1600s to 1775. The East Boothbay Series, #2, Winnegance House and Boothbay Region Historical Society, Boothbay, ME. IS.

Bowdoinham

Adams, S. (1912). The history of Bowdoinham, Maine. Fairfield, ME. Reprinted in 1985.

Bremen (see Bristol)

Bristol

Johnston, John. (1873). A history of Bristol and Bremen. Joel Munsell, Albany, NY.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Native Americans: Principal sources bibliography.

Brooks

Norwood, Seth Wademere. (1935). Sketches of Brooks history. J. B. Page printing company, Dover, NH.

Brooksville

Wheeler (see listing under Castine)

Brunswick

Wheeler, George Augustus. (1878). History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, including the ancient territory known as Pejepscot. A. Mudge & sons, printers, Boston, MA.

Buckfield

Cole, Alfred. (1915). A History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, from the earliest explorations to the close of the year 1900. Coburn Press, Bridgton, ME.

Bucksport

Babcock, Blakely B. (1975). Jonathan Buck of Bucksport: The man and the myth. An historical inquiry into the life of a Maine patriot during the years of the American Revolution. The Ellsworth American, Ellsworth, ME.

Camden

Dietz, Lew. (1947). Camden Hills; an informal history of the Camden-Rockport region. Printed for The Smiling Cow by The Camden Herald Press, Camden, ME.

Locke, John L. (1859). Sketches of the history of the town of Camden, Maine; including incidental references to the neighboring places and adjacent waters. Masters, Smith and Co., Hallowell, ME. IS.

Parker, E. C. (1984). A Natural history of Camden and Rockport. Camden-Rockport Historical Society, Camden, ME. IS.

Robinson, Reuel. (1907). History of Camden and Rockport, Maine. Camden Publishing Co., Camden, ME. IS.

• See annotations for this text in the Native American: Contemporary sources bibliography and some excerpts in our information file "The Aboriginals."

Castine

Parker (see listing under Pemaquid)

Taylor, Aline S. (1998). The french Baron of Pentagouet. Picton Press, Rockport, ME.

Wheeler, George Augustus. (1875). History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine including the ancient settlement of Pentagoet. Burr and Robinson, Bangor, ME.

Wheeler, George Augustus. (1896). Castine past and present. Rockwell and Churchill Press, Boston, MA.

Wheeler, G.A. and Bartlett, L.W. (1923). History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine. Cornwall Press, Cornwall, NY.

Williamson, Joseph. (1859). Castine and the old coins found there. Collections of the Maine Historical Society. Volume VI. pg. 105-126.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Pathways and Canoe Routes section of the Norumbega Reconsidered bibliography.

Cherryfield

Hammond (see listing in the trades bibliography)

Harriman, Phil. (April 1977). Mills of the Narraguagus. Self-published. IS.

Chesterville

Chaney, Josiah B. (1893). History of Chesterville, Maine: Being in a series of letters or chapters written to his friend, Thomas Merryman of Moline, Illinois: Second series with appendix. Handwritten.

Sewall, Oliver. (1875). History of Chesterville, Maine. J.S. Swift, Farmington, ME.

Clinton

Fisher, Carleton Edward. (1970). History of Clinton, Maine. K.J. Printing, Augusta, ME. IS.

Columbia Falls

Hammond (see listing in the trades bibliography)

Criehaven

Simpson, Dorothy. (2003). The island's true child: A memoir of growing up on Criehaven. Down East Books, Camden, ME.

Damariscotta

Biscoe, Mark Wyman. (1994). "No pluckier set of men anywhere": The story of ships and men in Damariscotta and Newcastle, Maine. Lincoln County Publishing Co., Newcastle, ME. IS.

Deer Isle

Bicentennial Committee of Deer Isle. (1989). Deer Isle remembered 1789-1989. Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME.

Gross, Clayton H. (1977). Island chronicles: Accounts of days past in Deer Isle and Stonington. Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME.

Hosmer, George Lawrence. (1886). An historical sketch of the town of Deer Isle, Maine, with notices of its settlers and early inhabitants. Stanley and Usher, Boston, MA. Reprinted in 1999 by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.

Hutchinson, Vernal. (1949). Deer Isle in the revolution. Hancock County Pub. Co., Ellsworth, ME.

Hutchinson, Vernal. (1957). A Yankee town in the Civil War: Being a pioneer chronicle of the vanished town of old Deer Isle, in Maine, during the crucial years, 1861- 1865. Deer Isle, ME.

Hutchinson, Vernal. (1967). A Maine town in the Civil War. Bond Wheelwright Co., Freeport, ME.

Hutchinson, Vernal. (1972). When revolution came; the story of Old Deer Isle in the province of Maine during the war for American independence. Ellsworth American, Ellsworth, ME.

Hutchinson, Vernal. (1976). Deer Isle revolutionary soldiers. V.R. Hutchinson, Deer Isle, ME?

Watts, Edith Spofford. (1997). Deer Isle, Maine: From pre-history to the present. Penobscot Press, Camden, ME.

Dexter

Keene, Hiram A. (1902). History of the M. E. Church, Dexter, ME, 1812-1900. The Eastern Gazette, Dexter, ME. IS.

Dresden

Allen, Charles Edwin. (1931). History of Dresden, Maine. n.p. Reprinted in 1977 by Everson, Jennie G. and Eversom, Eleanor L., Dresden, ME. IS.

Groves, Marlene Alma Hinkley. (1997). Index to Charles Edwin Allen's history of Dresden, Maine. Picton Press, Rockport, ME.

Falmouth

Churchill, Edwin A. (1970). Merchants and commerce in Falmouth (1740 - 1775). Maine Historical Society Newsletter. 9. pg. 93-104.

Otis, J. (1901). The story of old Falmouth. New York, NY.

Farmington

Butler, Francis Gould. (1885). A history of Farmington, Franklin County, Maine, from the earliest explorations to the present time, 1776-1885. Press of Knowlton, McLeary, and Co., Farmington, ME. Reprinted in 1983 by Picton Press.

Fayette

Underwood, Joseph H. (1956). History of Fayette. Charles E. Nash & Sons, Augusta, ME.

Freedom

(1976). Historical scrapbook: Freedom, Maine, 1794-1976. Hutchins Brothers, Thorndike, ME.

Freeport

Thurston, F.G. (1940). Three centuries of Freeport, Maine. Freeport, ME.

Friendship

Vogel, C. William. (n.d.). History of Friendship, Maine as presented at the sesquicentennial celebration. W.A.F.D., Friendship, ME. IS.

Fryeburg

Barrows, John Stuart. (1938). Fryeburg, Maine: An historical sketch. Fryeburg, ME.

Gardiner

Coolidge, Olivia. (date unknown). Colonial entrepreneur:  Silvester Gardiner and the settlement of the Kennebec River Valley. Gardiner Library Association and Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME.

Garland

Oak, Lyndon. (1912). History of Garland, Maine. The Observer Publishing Co., Dover, ME. IS.

Gorham

McLellan, H.D. (1903). The history of Gorham, Maine. Smith & Sale, printers, Portland, ME.

Pierce, Josiah. (1862). A history of the town of Gorham, Maine. Foster & Cushing, Portland, ME.

Whitten (see listing in the Maine History: Contemporary Sources bibliography)

Gouldsboro

Hadlock (see the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Hallowell

McCausland (see listing in the Women in Maine bibliography)

Nason, Emma H. (1909). Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. Burleigh & Flynt Press, Augusta, ME.

Ulrich (see listing in the Women in Maine bibliography)

Hancock

Phippen, Sanford, Ed. (2001). The sun never sets on Hancock Point. 2 vols. Historical Society of the Town of Hancock, Hancock, ME.

Harpswell

Wheeler (see listing under Brunswick)

Harrington

Hammond (see listing in the trades bibliography)

Harrison

Moulton, Alphonso. (1909). Centennial history of Harrison, Maine. Southworth Publishing Co., Portland, ME.  Reprinted in 1995 by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA.

Hope

Hardy, Anna Simpson. (1990). History of Hope, Maine. Penobscot Press, Camden, ME.

Industry

Allen, William. (1856). A history of the town of Industry, Maine. M. Littlefield, printer, Skowhegan, ME.

Hatch, William Collins. (1893). A history of the town of Industry, Franklin County, Maine, from the earliest settlement in 1787 down to the present time, embracing the cessions of New Sharon, New Vineyard, Anson, and Stark. In two parts, including the history and genealogy of many of the leading families of the town. Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co., Farmington, ME.

Islesboro

Farrow, John Pendleton. (1893). History of Islesborough, Maine. T.W. Burr, printer, Bangor, ME. Reprinted by the Islesboro Historical Society in 1965 as John Pendleton Farrow's history of Islesborough, 1764-1893. Reprinted again by Picton Press in 1991 as History of Islesborough, Maine. Additions and corrections, every name index.

Islesford

Dwelley, Hugh L. (date unknown). A history of Little Cranberry Island, Maine. Islesford Historical Society, Islesford, ME.

Jonesport

The American History Department of Jonesport - Beals High School. (1970). A pictorial history of the town of Jonesport, Maine. Advertiser Publishing Company, Calais, ME. IS.

Kennebunk

Bourne, Edward Emerson. (1970). Ancient history of Kennebunk written in 1831. Star Press, Kennebunk, ME.

Bourne (see listing under Wells)

Magnuson, Rosalind. (date unknown). An architectural walking tour of Kennebunk's National Historic District. Publisher unknown.

Kennebunkport

Bradbury, C. (1837). The history of Kennebunkport, Maine. Kennebunk, ME.

Charles, Rebecca and DiClementi, Deborah. (2003). Lobster rolls & blueberry pie: Three generations of recipes and stories from summers on the coast of Maine. Harper Collins, NY, NY.

Kittery

Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. (1903). Old Kittery and her families. Press of Lewiston, Lewiston, ME. Reprinted in 1970 by the Old Berwick Historical Society. IS.

Liberty (see Davistown Plantation)

Litchfield

(1897). History of Litchfield and an account of its centennial celebrations, 1895. Kennebec Journal Print, Augusta, ME.

Litchfield Heritage Committee. (1976). Litchfield yesterdays: A short historical tour and glimpse of bygone days. Compiled and edited by the Litchfield Heritage Committee and the Historical Society of Litchfield, Litchfield Bicentennial Committee, Litchfield, ME.

Livermore

Washburn, Israel. (1874). Notes, historical, descriptive, and personal, of Livermore, in Androscoggin (formerly in Oxford) county, Maine. Bailey & Noyes, Portland, ME.

Machias

Beam, Lura. (2001). A Maine hamlet. Maine Humanities Council, Maine Historical Society and Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME.

•  Describes the village of Marshfield, near Machias, Maine, at the turn of the century.

Driscol, George W. (1904). Narrative of the town of Machias: The old and the new the early and the late. Press of the Republican, Machias, ME. IS.

Manchester

Manchester Bicentennial Committee. (1975). Manchester Maine -- 1775-1975: Stories about the town of Manchester and its people. Printed by J.S. McCarthy Co., Inc., Augusta, ME. IS.

Milbridge

Hammond (see listing in the trades bibliography)

Monhegan

Curtis, Jane, Curtis, Will, and Lieberman, Frank. (1995). Monhegan the artists' island. Down East Books, Camden, ME. IS.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Maine Art and Artists bibliography.

Jenny, Charles F. (1922). The fortunate island of Monhegan: A historical monograph. American Antiquarian Society. 31.

Parker (see listing under Pemaquid)

Proper, Ida Sedgwick. (1930). Monhegan, the cradle of New England. The Southworth Press, Portland, ME. IS.

• See our comments and extensive quotations from this text in the essay Tales of Ancient Monhegan and the information file on Monhegan Island in the Ancient Pemaquid section and annotations in the Ancient Pemaquid and Maine History: Antiquarian sources bibliographies.

Montville (see Davistown Plantation)

Mount Desert

Mazlish, Anne, Ed. (1997). The Tracy log book 1855: A month in summer: Charle's Tracy's diary on Mount Desert Island. Acadia Publishing Company, Bar Harbor, ME. IS.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. (1960). The story of Mount Desert Island. Little Brown & Company, Boston, MA. IS(2).

• See the annotations for this citation in the Maine History Secondary Sources bibliography

Prins (see the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Savage, Charles. (1973). Mount Desert: The early French visits. Reprinted in 2004 by Port in a Storm Bookstore, Somesville, ME.

• Originally published for a dinner at the Asticou Inn in honor of the 350th anniversary of the discovery of Mt. Desert by Samuel de Champlain, Sept, 5, 1604.

Somes-Sanderson, Virginia. (1982). The living past: Being the story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and its relationships with other areas of the island. Self-published, Mount Desert, ME. IS.

Thornton (see listing under Southwest Harbor).

Newcastle

Biscoe (see listing under Damariscotta).

Cushman, David Quimby. (1882). The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle, including early Pemaquid, Damariscotta, and other contiguous places, from the earliest discovery to the present time; together with the genealogy of more than four hundred families. E. Upton & Son, Printers, Bath, ME. X.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Norumbega Reconsidered: Wawenoc Diaspora bibliography.

New Sharon

Hatch (see listing under Industry)

New Vineyard

Hatch (see listing under Industry)

Norridgewock

Allen, William. (1849). History of Norridgewock: Comprising memorials of the aboriginal inhabitants and Jesuit missionaries: Hardships of the pioneers: Biographical notices of the early settlers: And ecclesiastical sketches. E. J. Peet, Norridgewock, ME.

Norway

Lapham, William B. (1886). Centennial history of Norway, Oxford County, Maine, 1786 - 1886. Publisher unknown, Portland, ME.

Northeast Harbor (see Mount Desert)

North Haven

Beveridge, Norwood P. (1976). The North Island: Early times to yesterday. North Haven Bicentennial Committee, North Haven, ME. IS.

Old Town

Audette, Susan T. (date unknown). The Old Town Canoe Company: Our first hundred years. Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME.

Norton, David. (1881). Sketches of the town of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine, from its earliest settlement to 1879; with biographical sketches. S. G. Robinson, Bangor, ME.

Paris

Lapham, William Berry. (1884). History of Paris, Maine, from its settlement to 1880, with a history of the grants of 1736 & 1771, together with personal sketches, a copious genealogical register and an appendix. Paris, ME.

Parsonsfield

Dearborn, Jeremiah Wadleigh, Ed. (1888). A history of the first century of the town of Parsonsfield, Maine. B. Thurston & Company, Portland, ME.

Pemaquid

Hough, F.B. (1856). Papers relating to Pemaquid and parts adjacent in the present state of Maine known as Cornwell county, when under the colony of New York.

Parker, Arlita Dodge. (1925). A History of Pemaquid with sketches of Monhegan, Popham, Castine. MacDonald & Evans, Boston, MA.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Native American: Contemporary sources bibliography.

Thayer, Henry O. (1895). Beginnings at Pemaquid. Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society. Second series, Vol. VI. pg. 62-84.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Maine history sources: Antiquarian authors bibliography.

Pembroke

Pembroke Sesquicentennial Committee. (July 1982). Pembroke Sesquicentennial. Pembroke, ME.

Wilder, Gerald G. (1932). 1832 Pembroke 1932: A brief historical account. Centenial Celebration of the Town of Pembroke, Maine.

Penobscot

Wheeler (see listing under Castine)

Willaimson (see listing under Castine)

Perry

Sesquicentennial 1818-1968: Historical souvenir book: Perry, Maine. IS.

Popham

Parker (see listing under Pemaquid)

Portland

Goold, William. (1886). Portland in the past. B. Thurston & Company, Portland, ME.

Willis, William. (1865). The history of Portland from 1632 to 1864. Second Edition. Bailey and Noyes, Portland, ME.

Prospect

Ellis, Alice V. (1980). The history of Prospect, Maine, 1759-1979. Town of Prospect, ME.

Rockland

Eaton (see listing under Thomaston)

Merriam, Paul G., Molloy, Thomas J. and Sylvester, Theodore W., Jr. (1991). Home front on Penobscot Bay: Rockland during the war years 1940 - 1945. The Rockland Cooperative History Project, Rockland, ME.

• For some citations about Bicknell Manufacturing Company see our information file in the Hand Tools in History section.

Rockland Bicentennial Commission. (1976). Shore village story: An informal history of Rockland, Maine. Courier-Gazette, Inc., Rockland, ME.

• For some citations and an illustration of Livingston Manufacturing Company see our information file in the Hand Tools in History section.

Rockport

Dietz (see listing under Camden)
Parker (see listing under Camden)
Robinson (see listing under Camden)

Saco

Fairfield, Roy P. (1956). Sands, spindles, and steeples. House of Falmouth, Portland, ME.

Fairfield, Roy P. (1988). New compass points: Twentieth century Saco. Bastille Books, Saco, ME.

Folsom, George. (1830). History of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements, and of proprietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia. A. C. Putnam, Saco, ME. Reprinted in 1984 by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.

Ridlon, Gideon T. (1895). Saco valley settlements and their families. Publisher unknown, Portland, ME.

Sanford

Emery, Edwin. (1901). The history of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900. Compiled, edited and arranged by his son, William Morrell Emery and published by him, Fall River, MA. Reprinted in 1987 by H.H. Eastman, Sanford, ME. IS.

Perkins, Rachel Bean. (1985). Index of names in the history of Sanford, Maine 1661-1900. by Edwin Emery. Sanford-Alfred Historical Society, Sanford, ME.

Searsmont

Albin, Dorothy. (1976). Searsmont: The old township of Quantabacook 1764-1976. Camden Herald Publishing Company, Camden, ME.

Searsport

Eastman, Joel W. (1976). A history of Sears Island Searsport, Maine. Searsport Historical Society, Searsport, ME. IS.

South Bristol

Vincent, Ellen., ed. (2003). Down on the island, upon the main: A recollected history of South Bristol, Maine. Tilbury House and the South Bristol Historical Society, Bristol, ME.

Somesville (see Mount Desert)

Sorrento

Johnson, Lelia A. Clark. (1953). Sullivan and Sorrento since 1760. Hancock County Publishing Co., Ellsworth, ME.

Southport (see listings under Boothbay)

Southwest Harbor

Prins (see the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Thornton, Mrs. Seth S. (1938). Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville. Privately printed.

St. George

Nelson, Margret, G. (1974). On solid granite: The story of St. George’s church. St. George’s Episcopal Chapel, Long Cove, ME. IS.

Starks

Hatch (see listing under Industry)

Stonington (see Deer Isle)

Stockton Springs

Ellis, Alice V. (1955). The story of Stockton Springs, Maine. Historical Committee of Stockton Springs, Stockton Springs, ME.

Parsons, Nancy S. (1978). Stockton Springs vital records 1857 - 1891. C & H Publishing Co., Orrington, ME. IS.

Sullivan

Cooper, S. Josephine, Ed. (1989). A bicentennial history of Sullivan, Maine. Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME.

Johnson, Lelia A. Clark. (1953). Sullivan and Sorrento since 1760. Hancock County Publishing Co., Ellsworth, ME.

Swan's Island

Small, H. W. (1898). History of Swan's Island, Maine. Reprinted in 1973 by Picton Press, Rockport, ME.

Thomaston

Beckett (see listing in the Children's bibliography).

Eaton, Cyrus. (1865). History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine, from their first exploration, A.D. 1605; with family genealogies. 2 vols. Masters, Smith & Co., printers, Hallowell, ME. IS.

Morse, F.L.S. (1977). Thomaston scrapbook. 2 vols. Thomaston Historical Society, Thomaston, ME. IS.

Packard, Aubigne Lermond. (1950). A town that went to sea. Falmouth Pub. House, Portland, ME.  Reprinted in 1987 by the Thomaston Historical Society. IS.

Topsham

Wheeler (see listing under Brunswick)

Tremont

Prins (see listing in the Native Americans secondary texts bibliography)

Turner

French, W. R. and Riley, William. (1887). A history of Turner, Maine, from its settlement to 1886. Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, Portland, ME.

Union

Nash, Chester. (1974). 200 years in Union; a pictorial history of Union, Maine. Union Historical Society, Rockland, ME.

Sibley, John Langdon. (1851). A history of the town of Union, Maine, to the middle of the nineteenth century. Benjamin B. Mussey and Co., Boston, MA. Reprinted 1970, 1987 by New England History Press, Somersworth, NH.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Native Americans: Contemporary sources bibliography.

The Union Weekly Times. (1895). Union, past and present: An illustrated history of the town of Union, Maine from earliest times to date. Union, ME. X.

• It contains an advertisement for the S. W. Jones Iron Foundry in South Union.
• See the Davistown History Project's information files for a listing of Union businesses.

Unity

Vickery, James B. (1954). History of the town of Unity, Maine. Falmouth Pub. House, Manchester, ME.

Vinalhaven

Allen, Mildred S. (1900). A brief historical sketch of the town of Vinalhaven from it’s earliest known settlement. Press of the Star Job Print, Rockland, ME.

Armstrong (See listing in Toolmaking trades under quarry workers).

Waldoboro

Biscoe, Mark W. (2004). Merchant of the Medomak: Stories from Waldoboro Maine's Golden Years, 1860 - 1910. Lincoln County Publishing Co., Newcastle, ME. IS.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Maine History Contemporary Sources bibliography.

Miller, Samuel L. (1910). History of the town of Waldoboro, Maine. Emerson, printer, Wiscasset, ME.  Reprinted in 1987 by Lincoln County Publishing Co., Newcastle, ME.

Stahl, Jasper Jacob. (1956). History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro: Volume one: The colonial and federal periods. The Bond Wheelwright Company, Portland, ME. IS.

• See the annotations for this citation in the Davistown Plantation bibliography.
• The second volume contains recent history.

Warren

Eaton, Cyrus. (1851). Annals of the town of Warren in Knox County, Maine with the early history of St. Georges, Broadbay and neighboring settlements on the Waldo Patent. Masters, Smith and Co., Hallowell.  Reprinted in 1887 by Masters & Livermore, Hallowell and in 1968.

• This text contains information pertinent to the history of Davistown Plantation and coastal Maine.  Most of the annotations are in our information file for Warren, but other annotations are in the Davistown Plantation and Maine History: Antiquarian bibliographies.

Eaton, Cyrus. (1854). Woman: An address delivered to the ladies' sewing circle, Warren, Maine, by Cyrus Eaton. Masters, Smith & Co., Hallowell.

Overlock, Leland. (1988). Windships of Warren, Maine: Writings and records pertaining to the history of shipbuilding and related matters, 1770 to 1867. L. Overlock, Warren, ME.

Waterville

Marriner, Ernest. (1954). Kennebec yesterdays. Colby College Press, Waterville, ME. IS.

Whittemore, Edwin Carey et. al. (1902). The centennial history of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine: Including the oration, the historical address and the poem presented at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town June 23d, 1902. Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration, Waterville, ME. Reprinted in 1988 by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA. IS.

Wayne

Ault, Eloise R., Ed. (1998). History of Wayne, Maine. Wayne Historical Society, Wayne, ME.

Perkins, John R. (1968). Illustrated history of Wayne, Maine. Wayne, ME.

Walton, G. W. et. al. (1898). History of the town of Wayne, Maine. Maine Farmer Publishing Company, Augusta, ME.

Wells

Bourne, Edward Emerson. (1875). The history of Wells and Kennebunk from the earliest settlement to the year 1820, at which time Kennebunk was set off, and incorporated. B. Thurston & Co., Portland, ME.

Whitefield

Lowden, Linwood. (1984). Ballstown - West - 1768-1809: An Introduction to the History of the Town of Whitefield, Maine. Publisher NA.

Waters, Henry. (1982). Kings' Mills: Whitefield, Maine 1772-1982.

Windham

Dole, Samuel Thomas. (1916). Windham in the past. Merrill & Webber Co., Auburn, ME.

Murphy, Harry M. (1997). Index of Windham in the past by Samuel Thomas Dole. H.M. Murphy, Albuquerque, N.M.

Winthrop

Lovejoy, A.A. et. al. (1971). Winthrop. Kennebec Journal. Augusta, ME.

Parlin, W. Harrison. (1891). Reminiscences of East Winthrop. Banner Pub. Co., East Winthrop, ME.

Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. (1925). History of Winthrop, Maine, with genealogical notes. Press of Merrill & Webber Company, Auburn, ME. Second edition by David C. Young and Elizabeth Keene Young in 1994, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.

Thurston, David. (1855). A brief history of Winthrop, from 1764 to October 1855. Brown Thurston, steam printer, Portland, ME. IS.

Wiscasset

Chase, Fannie S. (1941). Wiscasset in Pownalborough: A history of the shire town and the salient historical features of the territory between the Sheepscot and Kennebec rivers. Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME. IS.

• The only reference to the Wawenoc Indians occurs on page 486: Wawenoc is the name of a stern wheeled steamboat built at Wiscasset during the Civil War -- fittingly among the last ships built at Wiscasset Village.

Cushman (see listing under Newcastle).

Patterson, William Davis. (1926). An architectural monograph: Wiscasset, Maine. R. F. Whitehead, NY, NY.

Patterson, William Davis. (1929). Wiscasset in early days: Historical notes pertaining to the old town on the Sheepscot River. Printed by the Times Co., Bath, ME.

Patterson, William Davis. (1931). Old Wiscasset historical data. Printed by the Times Co., Bath, ME.

Yarmouth

Rowe, William Hutchinson, et. al. (1910?). The Yarmouth poets. Yarmouth? ME.

Rowe, William Hutchinson. (192?). Yarmouth personages, an introduction. An attempt to revive the memory of individuals whose names were once household words in old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth. Yarmouth? ME.

Rowe, William Hutchinson. (1924). Shipbuilding days and tales of the sea, in old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine. Marks Printing House, Portland, ME.

Rowe, William Hutchinson. (1937). Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936; a history. Yarmouth, ME. IS.

York

Banks, Charles E. (1931-1935). History of York. 2 vols. Murray Printing Co., Boston, MA.