Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"Incorporation Wheeler’s Mills or Souadabscook Plantation or Wheelersborough or Olive and finally Hampden Settlers called the township Souadabscook…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777 District of Maine map, 1795Maine Historical Society Local settlers cultivated potatoes and vegetable gardens…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"… the town of Mount Desert into two towns and incorporating Eden as a separate town. The first church was started in 1792."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"… Company.” Chapter 451, 1870 ------ “An Act to Incorporate the Little River Dyking Company.” Chapter 533, 1871 ------ “An Act to Incorporate the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Public Library

"Incorporated in 1899, The Scarborough Public Library has a long history of successful collaboration with businesses, organizations, and schools in…"

City of Brewer

Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.

Maine Central Institute

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Kennebunk Free Library

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Lubec, Maine - Exhibits

"Students are actively working on projects that will be incorporated into this site. The Gardner Lake Tragedy"

Longfellow Garden Club

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Farmington Public Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"These acts incorporated settlers into existing Indigenous economic and social systems. In a similar deed, the Wabanaki leader Warrabitta, known also…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Incorporation After the Revolutionary War, deeds and titles were still not clear, so the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had to straighten things out."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… a portion of Holmantown was set apart, became incorporated, and was named Dixfield. The land remaining was called Holmantown for the next fifteen…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Society While Hampden was not the first town incorporated in the Penobscot County area it was the first to be inhabited by white settlers…"

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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Norway Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"The records also include the incorporation of the Plantation of Mount Desert into the town of Mount Desert, in the county of Lincoln and the state of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Georges Valley High School

"Teachers at the school look for ways to incorporate the community in the education its children, and the Maine Heritage Community Project has been…"

Town of Cumberland

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Millinocket Fire Department

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Abbot Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Bicentennial Committee, 2001 Strong, Maine - "Incorporated 1801," complied by Lewis Brackley and Charles Lisherness, Strong Historical Society…"