Maine Places

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County

Piscataquis County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816, to Piscataquis County in 1838)

Organized

1819 as Brownville Plantation

Incorporated

1824

Previous Designations

Township No. 5, Eighth Range North of Waldo Patent (T5 R8 NWP)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Brownville, Brownville Junction, Chandler (former post office), Ebeemee (former post office), Henderson (former post office), Knights (former railroad station), Knights Landing, Mill Brook (former railroad station), North Brownville (or North Brownsville, a former post office), Prairie

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Lake View Plantation, Milo, T5 R9 NWP, Williamsburg Township

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Brownville

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Brownville

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Brownville, Piscataquis, Maine

Official Website: Town of Brownville

Maine Memory Network: Brownville

Bibliography

_____, Inventory of the town and city archives of Maine, no. 11, Piscataquis County, vol. VI: Brownville (Portland, Me.: Maine Historical Records Survey, 1940)

Gerrish, Judson, History of Brownville, 1824-1924 (Dover-Foxcroft, Me.: F.D. Barrows, 1924)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Milo and Brownville register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)