County
Waldo County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Waldo County in 1827)
Incorporated
1789 from Long Island Plantation
Previous Designations
Long Island
Prominent Islands
Islesboro Island, Job Island, Seven Hundred Acre Island, Spruce Island, Warren Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Dark Harbor (Darkharbor), Isleboro, North Islesboro, Pripet
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Brooksville, Castine, Deer Isle, Lincolnville, North Haven, Northport
Maps
Historical USGS Maps of Isleboro, Maine
Cemeteries
Islesboro Cemeteries & Gravesites
Newspapers
Islesboro Island News
Vital Records
Deaths in Islesboro, 1781-1879
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Islesboro, Waldo, Maine
Islesboro Historical Society & Museum
Maine Memory Network: Islesboro
Maine Community Heritage Project: Islesboro
Bibliography
Cook, Joel, An Isleboro sketch (Boston, Mass.: Boston Photogravure Co., 1890)
Farrow, John Pendleton, History of Islesborough, Maine (Bangor Me.: T.W. Burr, printer, 1893)
Groves, Marlene Alma Hinkley, comp., Vital records of Islesboro, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c2000)
Mitchell, H. E., The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 [Ancestry.com] (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)