After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maine in 1976, and from the University of Maine School of Law in 1980, Leigh Saufley practiced in a small law firm in Ellsworth and served in the Maine Attorney General’s Office. She was appointed to the Maine District Court in 1990, to the Maine Superior Court…
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…
settled originally as early as 1623, but Indian raids precluded a permanent presence. Reportedly named for Dr. Peter Bowdoin, an early proprietor, it occupies the western shore of Merrymeeting Bay. The Cathance River runs through it and into the Bay. A fast growing community, Bowdoinham has attracted commuters and retirees to its still rural open spaces. See photos.
This small township is at the extreme west of the State. A gore is an area, triangular or irregular in shape, formed by the diverging or converging survey lines, often as a result of inaccuracies. This township in Somerset County shares an irregular, meandering border in a mountainous area with the Canadian province of Quebec.…
Primarily from a digitized version of an article from The New York Times’s print archive. May Craig, whose hats and tart questions to Presidents and politicians, made her one of the country’s best‐known news women for several decades. She was almost as famous for her flowered hats as for her penetrating and persistent questioning at Presidential…
The “Put-in” point for this trip begins at a small boat launch site in the heart of Maine Woods and Waters National Monument in T3 R8 WELS township. Wassataquoik Stream runs southeast in the township beginning near North Turner Mountain along a stretch of Maine Public Reserved Lands. The six mile trip ends in another…
Access to the pond is on unimproved roads beginning in Blanchard Village off the Abbot Road trending southwest for about four miles until turning right at Thanksgiving Pond Road. In about a mile, park road vehicles. Follow a rough road/trail for about a half mile with off-road vehicles or by hiking. This Spectacle Pond…
This Township in Somerset County has no village and probably no permanent residents. Spencer Road winds among several mountains from Hobbstown Township in the southeast to Skinner Township in the northwest. Greenlaw Mountain (2,991 feet) in its lower center and Number 5 Mountain in its northeast (3,168 feet) contribute to the mountainous landscape in…
Plymouth Township is in northern Somerset County, northwest of Moosehead Lake. It is split north to south by Seboomook Lake. “Seven Mile Hill” is named for its location, seven miles from Seboomook in the east. The northern half is accessed by the Golden Road, which runs…
Year Population 1970 1,700 1980 1,887 1990 2,196 2000 2,145 2010 2,198 Geographic Data N. Latitude 44:56:44 W. Longitude 69:15:23 Maine House District 100 Maine Senate District 10 Congress District 2 Area sq. mi. (total) 39.4 Area sq. mi. (land) 38.7 Population/sq.mi. (land) 55.4 County: Penobscot Total=land+water; Land=land only …
January 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1814 Incorporation of the Town of Milo 2020 Governor Janet Mills delivers the State of the State address…
[from “1918 Pandemic Influenza in Maine.” Maine Department of Health and Human Services.(edited for length and clarity)]* Saturday, November 2 The influenza epidemic, which has caused so much suffering in Portland, has passed its climax, but it has left behind weakness and desolation. Many families which have always been self-supporting have lost their providers. Others…
[from “1918 Pandemic Influenza in Maine.” Maine Department of Health and Human Services.(edited for length and clarity)]* Tuesday, October 1 On account of the epidemic of Spanish influenza and the fact that five students who arrived this morning were found to be afflicted with the disease, the opening of Colby College has been postponed for…
[from “1918 Pandemic Influenza in Maine.” Maine Department of Health and Human Services.(edited for length and clarity)]* Saturday, September 7 The first soldier at Camp Devens near Boston becomes ill with influenza. Just 35 miles northwest of Boston this camp, like so many other military camps, was hurriedly erected in the summer of 1917, just…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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This small, irregular sized township is on Route 156 between Wilton and Weld in Franklin County. Not to be confused with Perkins Township on Swan Island in Sagadahoc County. Hills Pond, north of Bald Mountain, has no inlets, but an outlet flows south forming the headwaters of Wilson Stream. Water quality is marginal for cold…