Gardiner, Kennebec County
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County
Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1799)
Incorporated
1803 from part of Pittston
Incorporated as a City
1849
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Cobbossee, or Cobbossee-contee
Boundary Changes
Part of Hallowell was annexed in 1834
Land was set off to form West Gardiner in 1850, and Farmingdale in 1852
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bookertown (former village), Gardiner (formerly Cobbosseecontee), Lawrence Mills (former railroad station), Libby Hill, South Gardiner
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Litchfield, Pittston, Randolph, Richmond, West Gardiner
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Gardiner
Newspapers
Gardiner Newspapers and Yearbooks - from Digital Archives of Gardiner Public Library
Miscellaneous Resources
Church Records
Maine Vital Records, Pastorates of Rev. Giles Bailey, 1840-1875
Vital Records
Deaths of Aged Persons in Gardiner and Pittston
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Gardiner
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine
Official Website: City of Gardiner
Maine Memory Network: Gardiner
Bibliography
______, Directory of the inhabitants, institutions, manufacturing establishments ... in the cities of Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner for 1882 (Augusta, [Me.]: J.F. Pierce, 1882)
______, The centennial of Gardiner: an account of the exercises at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, June 25, 1903 (Gardiner, Me.: unknown, 1903)
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
Gilmore, Evelyn L., Christ Church, Gardiner, Maine: antecedents and history: with a continuation of the story of Christ Church by John Richards (Augusta, Me.: Kennebec Journal, 1962)
Hale, Enoch, History and description of an epidemic fever, commonly called spotted fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814 (Boston, Mass.: Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818)
Hanson, J. W., History of Gardiner, Pittston and West Gardiner: with a sketch of the Kennebec Indians, & New Plymouth purchase, comprising historical matter from 1602 to 1852; with genealogical sketches of many families (Gardiner, Me.: W. Palmer, 1852)
Webster, Henry Sewall, Land titles in old Pittston (Gardiner, Me.: Reporter-Journal Press, 1912)
Webster, Henry Sewall, comp., Vital records of Gardiner, Maine, to the year 1892 (Gardiner, Me.: The Reporter-Journal Press, 1914-15)
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