Success

SUCCESS is a cold, rugged township, bounded on the north by Cambridge, east by Maine, south by Shelburne, west by Berlin and Milan. Area, 30,000 acres. It was granted February 12, 1773, to Benjamin Mackay and others. The township is owned by R. C. Pingree & Co., of Lewiston, Me. About 1823, five families resided here in the only house, a log cabin on Page Hill. These were those of Benjamin, Abiathar, and Lowell Bean, John Messer and Elijah Griffin. They were only here for a short time, and for nearly half a century there have been scarcely any inhabitants. It was a great timber section, with an immense growth of pine and spruce. Page hill takes its name from "Yager" Page, a hunter, who made a large clearing there in the early part of the century. The Narmarcungawuck and Live rivers rise here and pass westerly into the Androscoggin.

Contributed 2024 Jun 23 by Norma Hass, extracted from History of Coos County, New Hampshire by Georgia D. Merrill, published in 1888, page 955.