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Danforth, Washington County

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County

Washington County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)


Organized

1847 as Danforth Plantation; organized for election purposes in 1851


Incorporated

1860


Previous Designations

Easterly part of Township No. 8 and westerly part of Township No. 9, Fourth Range NBPP (T8 & T9 R4 NBPP), and the Danforth Tract


Boundary Changes

Part of Weston was annexed in 1885

The westerly part of the town of Eaton (incorporated in 1873) was annexed in 1887, the remainder being annexed to Forest City (now Forest City Township)


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Crooked Brook (former post office at Eaton), Danforth, Eaton, Irish Settlement


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Bancroft Township, Brookton Township, Forest Township, Forest City Township, North Lake (N.B.), T8 R3 NBPP, T8 R4 NBPP, Weston


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Danforth


Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Danforth


General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Danforth, Washington, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Danforth


Bibliography

Bacon, George Fox, Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1891)

Dunn, Marion L., comp., and Basil E. Kinney, ed., Baskahegan families: a genealogical dictionary of Bancroft, Danforth, Orient and Weston, Maine ([Portland, Me.?]: B.E. Kinney, 1984)

Love, Wilbur J., A history of Danforth, Maine ([s.l.: s.n., 1932?])

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