Moose River, Somerset County
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County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Organized
1852 as Moose River Plantation for election purposes, together with Sandy River Township and T4 R1 NBKP (now Jackman)
Reorganized
1859 as Moose River Plantation for election purposes, multiple-township plantations having been abolished; organized in 1893; a successor to the former plantation was organized in 1895; organized in 1903 for the assessment of taxes
Incorporated
1957
Previous Designations
Township No. 4, Second Range North of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (T4 R2 NBKP); Holdentown; Holden Plantation
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Jackman Mill, Moose River
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Baldtown Township, Dennistown Plantation, Jackman, Thorndike Township
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Moose River
Census Records
1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census
Court Records
Moose River Trial Justice Court Records
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Moose River Plantation
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Moose River, Somerset, Maine
Bibliography
______, The history of Moose River Valley: Jackman, Moose River, Dennistown, Long Pond, Parlin Pond, Holeb, Skinner and Lowelltown ([Jackman, Maine]: Jackman Bicentennial Book Committee, [1976])
Sprague, John Francis, "Jackman and the Moose River Region (Somerset County, Maine)," Sprague's Journal of Maine History, vol. 3, No. 2 (July 1915)
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