Maine Places

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County

Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)

Incorporated

1800

Previous Designations

Alamasook; Township No. 2 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey (T2 EPR LS); Township No. 2 West of Union River; Eastern River Township No. 2.

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Cranes Corners, East Orland, Five Mile Corners, North Orland, Orland (Orland Village), South Orland, Winkumpaugh Corners

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Bucksport, Dedham, Ellsworth, Penobscot, Surry, Verona Island

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Orland

Church Records

Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrington Circuit, 1819

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Orland

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Orland, Hancock, Maine

Official Website: Town of Orland

Maine Memory Network: Orland

Bibliography

______, Best remembered: Orland, Maine, 1800-2000 : history and recollected stories to celebrate our bicentennial (Orland, Me. : Town of Orland, 2000)

Emerson, Paul, Orland men of the Civil War ([Frankfort, Me. : The Author, 199-?])

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Bucksport, Orland, Orrington, Verona (Brunswick, Me.: H. E. Mitchell Co., 1907)

Richardson, Isaiah O., Isaiah O. Richardson, a farmer from Orland, ME: Diary for the year 1863, while a member of the 1st Maine Regiment ([s.l.,] c 1863)