Union (see photos) became the subject of Ben Ames Williams’ historical novel Come Spring, which chronicles the early settlement of the town through the lives of the Robbins family, whose home is now that of the Vose Library and the Union Historical Society. Most of the 591-acre Crawford Pond and the 523-acre Seven Tree Pond are shared with Warren to the south.
Turner (see photos and video) lies directly north of Auburn on Maine Route 4, and is served by routes 117 in the south and 219 in the north. South Turner is a smaller village near the Auburn city line. Bounded by the Androscoggin River on the east, Turner has its share of ponds, including Bear Pond and its amusement park.
Stanley Tupper was a Republican U.S. Representative; born in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County January 25, 1921; educated in Boothbay Harbor public schools, Hebron Academy; Middlebury College in Vermont, and LaSalle Extension University in Chicago. He served in the United States Navy from September 1944 to March 1946; later he was a member of board of…
is a village in the Town of St. George in Knox County, incorporated on February 7, 1803 from a portion of Cushing. In 1865 it ceded some land to South Thomaston. Maine Route 131 from Thomaston runs along the eastern portion of St. George and passes through Tenants Harbor village, about halfway to the tip…
Port Clyde is a village in St. George at the southern tip of its long peninsular. Port Clyde has long been an attraction to artists, including N. C. Wyeth, and tourists, who can take the ferry to Monhegan Island, visible in the distance. It is a base for lobster fishing and fin fishing. The village…
The 1842 South Solon Meeting House in Solon, is a period piece well preserved, with colorful murals depicting religious themes on the walls. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Meeting House is located about five miles Southeast of Solon village. The Maine Historic Preservation Commission has compared the meeting house to others, …
Maine Route 220 joins U.S. Route 202/Maine Route 9 at Green’s Corner near the shore of Unity Pond. Carleton Pond, Bog, and Stream are accessible from Route 220 in the north end of town. The 1840 Troy Union Meeting House is a classic example of a type of meeting house or church in Maine in the four decades prior to the Civil War.
South on Route 230 (Bayside Road) from Ellsworth, on the west shore of town, one notes the very modest houses on the inland side and the more substantial houses and cottages set back from the road on the Union Bay side. Route 3, the “Bar Harbor Road,” on the east side has a completely different character, featuring attractions for tourists bound for Acadia National Park, and the Hancock County – Bar Harbor Airport.
Tremont’s Bass Harbor is the terminal for the Swan’s Island ferry and the Frenchboro ferry. See photos. Located on Mount Desert Island, it also hosts a much photographed lighthouse on its rocky shore and two nature preserves. Tremont’s cove-rich shoreline abuts Blue Hill Bay, which includes the town’s Tinker and Hardwood islands, among others.
For the earliest residents, Native Americans, dugout canoes were the vehicles of choice along the coast. Full use of rivers, lakes and streams awaited the invention of the lighter birch bark canoe, which could be carried from one water body to another, creating important links inland and to the north. After the Europeans arrived, rivers…
Consecutive Championships School No. Year Greely 6 2001-2006 Scarborough 8 2005-2012 Year No Classes, Class A Class B 1979 Ellsworth Class A Class B 1980 Waterville Mount Desert 1981 Brewer Mount Desert 1982 Brewer Mount Desert 1983 Brewer Old Town 1984 South Portland Scarborough 1985 South Portland Ellsworth 1986 Thornton Academy Scarborough 1987 Brewer…
Consecutive Championships School No. Year Chevrus 7 1980-1986 Scarborough 5 1994-1998 ————————————————————————————- Year No Classes, Class A Class B 1968 Portland 1969 Deering 1970 Portland 1971 South Portland 1972 South Portland Class A Class B 1973 Deering Lawrence 1974 Deering Lawrence 1975 Deering/Brunswick (Tie) Lawrence 1976 Portland Orono 1977 Portland Cheverus 1978 Portland Cheverus 1979…
Consecutive Championships School No. Year Scarborough 5 1994-1998 Winthrop 5 1995-1999 John Bapst 5 2002-2006 Waterville 5 2007-2011 Year Class A Class B Class C 1973 Marshwood Massabesic 1974 Mount Blue Falmouth 1975 Mount Ararat Gorham York 1976 Waterville Greely Orono 1977 South Portland Noble Orono 1978 Mount Blue Gorham Falmouth 1979 Westbrook Greely Hyde…
Consecutive Champions School No. Year Deering 5 1960-1964 Lawrence 5 1974-1978 Chevrus 5 1981-1985 Year Class L, LL Class M Class S 1959 Brunswick Winslow Lincoln Academy 1960 Deering Winslow Wells 1961 Deering Gould Academy Orono 1962 Deering Kennebunk Orono 1963 Deering Bonny Eagle Mechanic Falls 1964 Deering Bonny Eagle Wells 1965 Edward Little Falmouth…
Townships is the designation of minor civil divisions that have no organized local government, such as a plantation, town or city.
School Bell Commemorating the Maine Unorganized Territory School System (2001)
Bell Recalling the Unorganized Territory School System (2001)
Townships in Maine are administered directly by the State government. Taxes are due directly to the State Bureau of Taxation, with funds disbursed to support township services such as schools. They have names or may simply be designated by a township and range identification, such as T3 R4 WELS or T5 ND BPP. T stands for township, and R indicates a range. More abbreviations are here.
Recently the downtown (see photos) has witnessed a renewal with modern buildings. Topsham has been a very rapidly growing community both in population and in commercial development.The area of the Topsham Fair Mall is located adjacent to Interstate 95. Pejepscot Village was once an active community when the Pejepscot Paper Mill was in full production. Falls in the Androscoggin River between Topsham and Brunswick encouraged the development of paper and textile mills which dominated the economy into the 20th century.
The National Home for Disabled Soldiers (Eastern Branch) Togus c. 1880 The Togus Veterans Administration Medical and Regional Office Center, as…
Settled in 1772, the town lies southeast of Unity on Maine Route 139. See photos. While once a farming community, as most Maine towns, Thorndike counted the railroad as a major element in its economy. The remains of that era are obvious in the village. The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad was the latest to use the line.
Northeast Carry is a township on the northeast shore of Moosehead Lake, with a view of Mount Kineo (photo on left below – sharp cliff right of center). It connects the Lake with the West Branch of the Penobscot River by a “carry” corridor for portaging canoes. Henry David Thoreau used this connector twice during…
(1817-1862) was born on July 12, 1817 and raised in Concord, Massachusetts. He was truly a “journalist,” keeping a daily journal from young adulthood to shortly before his death. He traveled to Maine, climbed Mount Katahdin, and was an early observer of the state’s people and landscape. His book The Maine Woods is full of…