Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Church Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)

Incorporated

1811 from Eddington Plantation

Previous Designations

Eddy Township; Colonel Eddy's Township; Finson; Township No. 10, East Side of the Penobscot River (T10 EPR)

Boundary Changes

Part of Jarvis' Gore annexed in 1823

Parts of Brewer annexed in 1846 and 1855

Villages, Locations and Settlements

East Eddington, Eddington

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Bradley, Brewer, Clifton, Dedham, Holden, Orono, Veazie

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Eddington

Church Records

Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrington Circuit, 1819

Vital Records

Marriages by Col. Jonathan Eddy of Eddington, 1791-1803

Miscellaneous Resources

Heads of Family on Penobscot River, 1776

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Eddington

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Eddington, Penobscot, Maine

Official Website: Town of Eddington

Maine Memory Network: Eddington

Bibliography

______, Eddington sesquicentennial program: 1811-1961 ([Eddington, Me.: The Town, 1961])

Porter, Joseph W., Memoir of Col. Jonathan Eddy of Eddington, Me.: with some account of the Eddy family, and of the early settlers on Penobscot River (Augusta [Me.] Sprague, Owen & Nash, printers, 1877)

Thayer, Mildred N., and Mrs. Edward W. Ames,Brewer, Orrington, Holden, Eddington: history and families (Brewer, Me.: L. H. Thompson, inc., c1962)

Ward, Jean R., comp., Church records and history North Brewer-Eddington United Methodist Church ([Eddington, Me.: The Church, 1990])

Wood, Carolyn A, History of Eddington ([s.l.: s.n.], 1976)