Maine Places

Resource Guide

Eastport, Washington County

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County

Washington County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)


Incorporated

1798 from Plantation No. 8 PS


Incorporated as a City

1893


Previous Designations

Township No. 8 Putnam Survey (T8 PS); Moose Island


Boundary Changes

Land was set off to form Lubec in 1811

Part of Lubec was annexed in 1847


Prominent Islands

Moose Island, Quoddy Village, Treat Island


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Eastport, Quoddy


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Campobello Island (N.B.), Lubec, Perry


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Eastport


Newspapers

The Quoddy Tides Newspaper Archive

The Quoddy Tides


Miscellaneous Resources

Maine Town Reports: Eastport

Original Members of the Eastport Female Benevolent Society

Crew List Arriving at Eastport, 1949-1958


Vital Records

Eastport Marriages, 1793-1812


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Eastport


General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Eastport, Washington, Maine

Official Website: City of Eastport

Border Historical Society

Maine Memory Network: Eastport

Maine Memory Network: Quoddy


Bibliography

Ayer, Sarah Connell, Diary of Sarah Connell Ayer. Andover and Newburyport, Massachusetts; Concord and Bow, New Hampshire; Portland and Eastport, Maine (Portland, Me.: Lefavor-Tower Company, 1910)

Bacon, George F., Calais, Eastport and vicinity, their representative business men, and points of interest: embracing Calais, Eastport, Machias, Machiasport, Milltown, Jonesport, Princeton, Millbridge, Cherryfield and Lubec (Newark, N.J.: Glenwood Pub. Co., c1892)

Brown, C. Donald, Eastport: a maritime history ([Eastport, Me.: Border History Research & Pub. Center], 1968)

Kilby, William Henry, Eastport and Passamaquoddy: a collection of historical and biographical sketches (Eastport, Me.: E.E. Shead & Co., 1888)

Weston, Jonathan D., The history of Eastport, and vicinity: a lecture, delivered April, 1834, before the Eastport Lyceum (Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1834)

Willey, Kenneth L., comp., Vital records from the Eastport Sentinal [i.e. Sentinel] of Eastport, Maine, 1818-1900 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1996)

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