Waldo County
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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
Simmons Store and Post Office
Searsmont, Maine
Miller & Hills General Store and Post Office
Old Grange Building
The person in the photograph is Fred Royce MILLER, who was born in Searsmont, Maine, 15 Feb 1901; he died in Falmouth, Maine, 15 Nov 1982. Fred Royce Miller was a grandfather of Linda Miller Clark, who contributed these three photos of the building in Searsmont.
Swanville School
courtesy of Lisa Nugent
Swanville Class of 1898-99
courtesy of Lisa Nugent
Main Street, Belfast
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