BOWMANTOWN TOWNSHIP

Bowmantown is a small township along the western most Maine border at the Quebec border. It is the northernmost township in Oxford County. It contains the 30 acre Upper Black Pond. Located south of Twin Peaks near the Canadian border, it is not readily accessible to the general public. Permission must be obtained from International…

T10 R12 WELS

National Register of Historic Places – Listings Photos, and edited text are from nominations to the National Register of Historic Places researched by Maine. Historic Preservation Commission. Full text and photos are at https://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp  Boarding House and Storehouse at Churchill Depot             The Boarding House and Storehouse at Churchill Depot are located…

C Surplus Township

                    CSurplus is a small, triangular township in Western Maine’s Oxford County. It is West of the trio of Township C, Township D and Township E. It is just East of the town of Upton. No improved roads link the two. The Appalachian Trail closely bypasses…

T2 R12 WELS

Inlet of Caribou Lake near the Golden Road at Sias Road in T2 R12 WELS (2017)

This township is southwest of Baxter State Park and Southeast of Chesuncook and Caribou Lakes. The Sias Hill Road from T2 R13 WELS  passes the foot of Caribou Lake, where it joins the Golden Road. At the junction the road trends northeast to the West Branch of the Penobscot River and Baxter State Park; and northeast…

Sandy Bay Township

Sandy Stream Mountain in Sandy Bay Township East Side of Route 201 (2004)

Sandy Bay is about seven miles north of Jackman Village on U.S. Route 201 and Maine Route 6 through Dennistown Plantation. From its township line beyond Dennistown, the two Routes continue northwest for about ten miles to the Canadian Border and customs facilities. The South Branch of the Penobscot River begins here, trending east through…

T1 R8 WELS

Southwest shore of Millinocket Lake and Mount Katahdin from T1 R8 WELS

This township is just north of Millinocket on the Millinocket Lake Road, which trends northwest from Millinocket to the Lake and a boat launch. Millinocket Stream, the outlet from the Lake, flows south through the township to the Town of Millinocket. Smith Brook, the outlet for the 22 acre Little Smith Pond, flows through a…

Big Moose Township

      With a long expanse on the southwest shore of Moosehead Lake, the Township stretches from the East Outlet of the Lake, the source of the Kennebec River, to the outskirts of Greenville on the combined Route 6 and 15. The Kennebec in the north moves through the long stretch of Indian Pond,…

Muscle Ridge Shoals Township

Otter Island Ledge Day Beacon in Muscle Ridge Channel (2015)

This island group township in Knox County is just offshore from South Thomaston in the Gulf of Maine. Its more than a dozen islands includes the larger Andrews, Dix, Fisherman and Pleasant.  [click images to enlarge and clarify, for these and all others] The “shoals” refer to ledges and reefs that threaten safe passage.  Otter…

Williamsburg Township

This township is in southern Piscataquis County, just west of Brownville. Originally Williamsburg and Barnard were within Number Six, Range Eight township, and adjoined Brownville on the west.  In 1834 the original township was split when Barnard and Williamsburg each became incorporated towns. In 1939, in the midst of the Great Depression, Williamsburg gave up…

Katahdin Iron Works Township

The Iron Works township contains the remaining structures of a once thriving industrial site. That site is now recognized as a historic treasure by its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Katahdin Iron Works once included a small village and roads in this remote location. During the height of the Iron Works operation,…

Freeman Township

On March 4, 1808 Freeman was organized as a town. In 1823 is set off land to form North Salem (now Salem Township. Ten years later it set off more land to New Portland. By 1838, during the Great Depression, it surrendered its organization and reverted to become an unorganized township in in Franklin County.…

Cross Lake Township

Cross Lake with Cottages (2018)

Cross Lake Township, In Aroostook County is, not surprisingly, named for the long lake in its southwestern quarter. Maine Route 161 from Madawaska to Fort Kent slices diagonally across the township. Route 162 branches northeast along Long Lake to St. Agatha. Ouelette and Guerette are the two principal villages. The township is largely a rural…

Salem Township

                Salem, in Franklin County, was first settled by Benjamin Heath, who cleared land in what was then a portion of Phillips, Maine in 1814. The following year, Heath returned with two other men, who cleared additional lots, and permanently settled with their families in 1816. By 1821…

Jim Pond Township

This Franklin County township contains a section of the Dead River’s North Branch, along with several ponds, the largest of which is Jim Pond. The smaller Greenbush Pond is more accessible, but with a limited fishery. Route 27 follows the River on its journey to Eustis where it merges with the South Branch to create…

Kibby Township

Access from Route 27 (2017)

In western most Maine and Franklin County, the Township (also known as T1 R6 WBKP) has no village and virtually no population. Its major economic resource is Kibby Ridge on Kibby Mountain. Logging the forested township is also an economic asset. Maine Route 27 in Chain of Ponds Township provides access to the network of…