Histories

A Brief Historical Sketch

Waldo County was erected 3 July, 1827 (Public Laws, chs.354,362), by setting off all of Hancock County lying west of Penobscot Bay and River, taking from Lincoln County the towns of Camden, Hope, Liberty, Montville, and Palermo, and Appleton Plantation, and from Kennebec County the towns of Freedom, Unity, Montgomery, and Burnham. The northern boundary of the county was formed by the south lines of Penobscot and Somerset Counties and has remained unaltered.

In 1836, one estate was annexed to Camden from Warren on Lincoln County (ch.17)

The town of Vinalhaven was annexed from Hancock County, March 15, 1838 (ch. 451)

Three homesteads were set off from the Town of Palermo to the town of Washington in Lincoln County, April 11 1854 ( (Public Laws, Chapter 327)

The towns of Appleton, Camden, Hope, North Haven, and Vinalhaven were set off to form part of the new county of Knox, April 1, 1860 (Public Laws, ch. 146)

In 1873 part of Clinton Gore Plantation in Kennebec County was annexed to Burnham (ch. 384).

The present boundaries of Waldo County include 26 towns and 1 city: the city of Belfast and the towns of Belmont, Brooks, Burnham, Frankfort, Freedom, Islesborough, Jackson, Knox, Liberty, Lincolnville, Monroe, Montville, Morrill, Northport, Palermo, Prospect, Searsmont, Searsport, Stockton Springs, Swanville, Thorndike, Troy, Unity, Waldo and Winterport.

Source: taken from a Publication of the Maine State Archives named Counties, Cities, Towns and Plantations of Maine; A handbook of Incorporations, Dissolutions and Boundary Changes. Prepared by The Maine Historical Records Survey Project. Division of Professional and Service Projects Works Projects Administration, Portland, Maine. The Maine Historical Records Survey Project, 1940

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