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The town was granted by the State of Massachusetts to Williams College. In 1799 the College sold it to Levi Lincoln and others. It was called Lincolnville. The first selection of a lot was made at the time by Isaac Wheeler, which he afterwards settled. In 1801, David A. Gove, a resident of Nottingham, N. H., purchased a lot and felled ten acres of trees that year. Josiah Bartlett came from the same town the next year. During 1802, openings were made by sixteen or more individuals from the western part of Maine and New Hampshire.
On the 22d of June, Joseph Garland came from New Hampshire with his wife and three children to Bangor, which was then a village with but two stores, and placing his wife on a horse with one child before and another behind, he drove his stock by spotted trees to Garland. From this circumstance, when the town was incorporated, it took the name of Garland. During this year a saw-mill was built by the proprietors, and in 1803 several frame buildings were erected. In 1805, there were twelve families within the limits of the town. In 1806, the first school was opened by William Mitchell, in the house of Joseph Garland. In 1810, a Congregational church was organized, which was one of the first of the kind in Penobscot County. In 1811, the town was organized, when there were about fifty legal voters. The Freewill Baptists organized a church in 1813.
Contributed by Jennifer Godwin, transcribed from Bangor Historical Magazine, Porter, Joseph W., ed., Volume IV, June 1888 - June 1889, Bangor
Some months ago S. Fernald Richards of this
town [Garland], who is interested in minerals, inquired of me about an abandoned
silver mine in Garland. Although I had known the town for 75 years I did not
recall anything of it, the matter was settled.
The mine is located in the
northwest part of town, not far from West Garland and in the issue of the Dexter
Gazette for Jan 16th, Miss Georgia Titus who lived in West Garland when a child
and does now in the summer, gave her recollections of its opening and the
subsequent workings as follows;
The article in a recent issue of the
Gazette relative to the topographic map and charts of the various Maine
quadrangles, aroused the query in the mind of your correspondent. "How much do
people know regarding the 920 feet above sea level of Preble's Hill?" Before the
change of property that gave Edwin Preble its ownership, it was known as Jones
Hill, being a portion of the farm lands of one John Jones. Previous to that the
farm was known as the Flanders place and Lydia, one of the daughters of the soil
became the wife of John Jones. The Flanders family, we believe, were among the
many early settlers of Garland, then Lincoln Township, to come to the "Granite
State."
Regardless of mathematics, we will not compute the time but turn
back to a day when the writer was five years young, March 12, 1936. A shaft was
being sunk on Jones Hill for mining galens ore. A long table of men working in
the mine and boarding at Gordon homestead a mile distant to the south, is
plainly silhouetted in memory. Daniel Moor, the bald headed and gentlemanly
overseer, harelipped Brawn, Mr. Webber and others with names that possibly I
never knew or have forgotten.
Blow pipes, mortars, crucibles and acid
tests followed the evening meal with interesting experiment. The shipment of a
car load of mineral to Philadelphia for smelting and the return of two bricks of
silver ore are outstanding features. The later larceny of the same was a
somewhat tragic mystery which was never fathomed.
The percentage of
silver was not large enough to warrant continued operation with the possibility
that the vein might 'peter' out and the incidental expense of smelting, (with
the nearest works in Pennsylvania) ...
Contributed by Fran Jones Libby. This piece was written for The Gazette years ago by Miss Georgia B. Titus of Garland, and reprinted by Liston P. Evans for the Piscataquis Observer March 12th, 1936. The article is reprinted through the courtesy of the Maine State Library.
Garland
Garland
Garland Post Office
Garland
France & Lord Store
William Godin - Postmaster 04/06/1819
Reuben Bartlett - Postmaster 03/07/1821
Nehemiah Bartlett - Postmaster 09/29/1835
Joseph Springall - Postmaster 07/28/1841
Lorenzo Oak - Postmaster 12/24/1849
Charles Haskell - Postmaster 07/24/1855
Joseph Springall - Postmaster 12/30/1856
Charles Haskell - Postmaster 07/09/1859
Noah W. Johnson - Postmaster 08/01/1861
Albert D. Fogg - Postmaster 07/26/1865
L. O. Oaks - Postmaster 08/20/1874
Benjamin H. Oak - Postmaster 05/29/1882
Joseph T. Knight - Postmaster 10/15/1885
Andrew M. Haskell - Postmaster 10/22/1889
Joseph T. Knight - Postmaster 05/10/1893
James H. Knight - Postmaster 06/05/1894
Charles F. Osgood - Postmaster 05/27/1898
David E. Knight - Postmaster 03/10/1902
Angie M. France - Postmaster 10/24/1914
Everett L. Noble - Postmaster 09/12/1922
Arthur A. Knight - Acting Postmaster 08/01/1929
Arthur A. Knight - Postmaster 11/23/1929
Mrs. Jennie V. Higgins - Acting Postmaster 04/30/1959
Mrs. Jennie V. Higgins - Postmaster 03/11/1960
Mrs. Helen B. Smith - Officer-In-Charge 02/26/1971
Herman B. Allen - Postmaster 01/22/1972
Mrs. Victory F. Allen - Officer-In-Charge 07/01/1975
Victory F. (Allen) Todd - Postmaster 10/25/1975
Cynthia Murray - Officer-In-Charge 03/31/2003
Source: Postmaster Finder, United States Postal Service
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