Brief
History:
Knox County is a county
located in the state of Maine, United
States. Its county seat is Rockland. The
county is named for
Revolutionary War general and
Secretary of War Henry Knox, who lived in
the county from 1795 until his death in
1806.
The county was established on April
1, 1860, and is the most recent county to
be created in Maine. It was carved from
parts
of Waldo and Lincoln counties.
Until 1620 the area we
call Knox County was part of North
Virginia when it became New England. On
March 23, 1630 it was
the Lincolnshire or Muscongus
Patent, later called the Waldo Patent.
From 1639 until 1664
it was known as the province of Maine .
From 1664-1673 it was part of the County
of Newcastle,
Province of New York. From 1673 to
1676 it was the County of Devonshire,
Royal Province of Mass. Bay. In 1677 the
area
passed back to New York.
Eleven years later, in
1689, it was again part of Mass. West of
the Kennebec River it was the Province of
Maine, east of the
river, (our side), it was the Colony
of Sagadahoc, Royal Province of Maine
until 1691.
Then it became
Yorkshire County, later York County, until
1760 when it became Lincoln County. In
1827 Waldo County was
formed from it. On April 1, 1860
Knox County was formed from parts of Waldo
and Lincoln Counties.
St. George's was
named, but not settled, in 1623
approximately where Warren is today. It
was Fort George, 'the frontier
possession of the English', from
1630 to 1699. In 1719 two blockhouses were
built where Thomaston is now. The first
civilian
settlement at St. Georges was in
1735. In Nov. 1776 the Upper Town of St.
George's became Warren, which included the
present Rockland and Thomaston.
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