Anson was the home of Francis B. Henderson, who moved there from from New York City in 1940 where he had been Captain of a barge moving critical material, equipment and supplies in New York Harbor for the military during World War II. Soon after moving to Anson, he was appointed Chief Deputy Sheriff and soon became Sheriff for Somerset County, a position he held for twenty years. To modernize his new post he introduced two-way radios for use in each of the towns for use by local deputy deputies.
In the 1950s the town had a quiet street, church street, [Church of the Nazarene] with more than a dozen children under twelve years. The street was, in effect, a playground these urchins! Likely the result of the post World War II boom births.
Anson was a bedroom community for the paper mill across the Kennebec River. See Madison.
A few years later the town street became a street with houses that deteriorated as jobs were lost when the Paper Mill moved out of Madison. Photo above is after recovery. Recovery has slowly begun to erase the the earlier damage.
North Anson is a Village about five miles north on the River Road following the Kennebec River. Savage Island is a circular island in the Kennebec River about one mile across at the eastern end of the village near the end of Union Street. The Village, part of Anson, is the gateway West to Franklin County on Maine Route 234.
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