Old Town, Penobscot County
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County
Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)
Incorporated
1840 from part of Orono
Incorporated as a City
1891
Previous Designations
Township No. 4 Old Indian Purchase, West of Penobscot River (T4 OIP WPR); Oldtown
Boundary Changes
That part of Argyle (now Argyle Township) called the Moor Tract was annexed in 1843
Parts of Alton were annexed in 1863 and 1871
Villages, Locations and Settlements
French Settlement, Great Works, Indian Island, Old Town, Old Town Landing, Pea Cove, Pushaw, Stillwater (formerly Deadwater), Upper Stillwater (former post office), West Great Works (former post office at Great Works), West Old Town
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Alton, Argyle Township, Bradley, Glenburn, Hudson, Milford, Orono,
Census Records
Census of the Penobscot Indians, 1858
1860 Census of the Penobscot Nation
1868 Census of the Penobscot Tribe
Church Records
Maine Vital Records, Pastorates of Rev. Giles Bailey, 1840-1875
Necrology of St. Joseph's Old Town, Maine, A-C
Necrology of St. Joseph's Old Town, Maine, C-G
Necrology of St. Joseph's Old Town, Maine, H-L
Necrology of St. Joseph's Old Town, Maine, M-O
Necrology of St. Joseph's Old Town, Maine, P-U
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Old Town
Miscellaneous Resources
Old Town Annual Reports - from Digital Archives of Old Town Public Library
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Old Town
Newspapers
Old Town Newspapers - from Digital Archives of Old Town Public Library
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Old Town, Penobscot, Maine
Official Website: City of Old Town
Maine Memory Network: Old Town
Maine Memory Network: Indian Island
Maine Memory Network: Stillwater
Bibliography
______, City of Old Town and its environs: 1906 souvenir: early settlement, growth and historical facts, advantages for new industries, industrial and mercantile concerns, educational, religious and charitable institutions, opportunities for home seekers ([Bangor, Me.]: R. J. Lawton, [1906])
______, Old Town, Maine: the first 125 years 1840-1965 ([Old Town, Me.: Town of Old Town, c1965])
______, Nos histoires de l'ile: History and memories of French Island, Old Town, Maine (Old Town, Me.: Nos Histoires de l"Ile, c1999)
Chenard, Robert E., comp., Marriages of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, Maine (1860-1960): including 1836-1892 Franco-American marriages recorded in the civil registers of Bangor, Bradley, Brewer, Old Town, and Orono and death records of St. Joseph to 1946 ([Waterville, Me.?: R.E. Chenard, 1993?])
Gray, Ruth, comp., Vital records of Old Town, Maine, prior to 1892 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 1997)
King, Annette Paradis, Growing up on Adademy Hill: remembering my French-Canadian-American papa ([Maine: The Author], c2002 (Downeast Graphics & Printing))
Norton, David, Sketches of the town of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine from its earliest settlement, to 1879; with biographical sketches (Bangor: S. G. Robinson, printer, 1881)
Norton, David, "Sketches of Old Town and Orono," Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, vol. 9 (Portland, Me., 1898)
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