Maine Places

County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Aroostook County (set off from Hancock County to Penobscot County in 1816, to Aroostook County in 1839)

Organized

1859 as Grant Isle Plantation; organized in 1862 for the assessment of taxes

Incorporated

1869 as the town of Grant Isle; name changed in 1872 to Grand Isle

Previous Designations

Township No. 18, Third Range West of the Easterly Line of the State (T18 R3 WELS)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Grand Isle, Lille, Lower Grant Isle (later Lower Grand Isle, former post offices at Lille), Notre Dame, West Van Buren (former post office at Grand Isle)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Madawaska, Riviere-Verte (N.B.), Sainte-Anne (N.B.), Van Buren, T17 R3 WELS

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Grand Isle

Cemeteries

St. Gerard Cemetery

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Grand Isle

General Resources

The Upper St. John River Valley: Grand Isle

Official Website: Town of Grand Isle

Greater Grand Isle Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: Lille

Bibliography

______, Homecoming '93 : Grand Isle, Lille, Les Concessions (Madawaska, Me. : Saint John Valley Publishing Co., c1993)

Carrier-Daigle, Jeannine, Laurette Carrier-Lavertu, and Guy F. Dubay, Souvenir album, Homecoming '94 : Grand Isle, Lille, et les concessions (Madawaska, Me. : Saint John Valley Publishing Co., 1994)

Madore, Patsy, St. Gerard & Mt. Carmel parish, 1930 to 1996 : in memory of the souls of all the faithful departed loved ones ([Grand Isle, Me.] : s.n., 1996)