Maine Places

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

County

Waldo County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Waldo County in 1827)

Incorporated

1816 from Washington Plantation

Previous Designations

Part of the Waldo Patent (Muscongus Patent)

Boundary Changes

Part of Monroe was annexed in 1823, and land was set off to that town in 1844 and 1883

Land was set off to Swanville in 1841

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Brooks, South Brooks (former post office)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Jackson, Knox, Monroe, Swanville, Waldo

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Brooks

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Brooks

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Brooks, Waldo, Maine

Official Website: Town of Brooks

Brooks Historical Society

Bibliography

Groves, Marlene A., A Record of the Church at Jackson & Brooks, Maine (Camden, Me. : Picton Press, 1994)

Norwood, Seth W., Sketches of Brooks history (Dover, N.H.: J.B. Page Print. Co., c1935)