Hampden, Penobscot County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Census Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)
Incorporated
1794 from Sowadabscook Plantation and part of Frankfort
Previous Designations
Township No. 1, First Range North of Waldo Patent (T1 R1 NWP); Wheelersborough; Sowadabscook (Sowerdaescook)
Boundary Changes
One estate in Frankfort was annexed in 1816
Part of Hermon was annexed in 1831, and parts of Newburgh in 1823 and 1832
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Areys Corners (Arey Corner), East Hampden, Hampden, Hampden Center, Hampden Highlands (formerly Hampden Corner), Nealeys Corner, North Hampden (former post office), South Hampden (former post office at Hampden Corner), West Hampden
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Bangor, Brewer, Hermon, Newburgh, Orrington, Winterport
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Hampden
Cemeteries
Some Hampden Gravestone Inscriptions
Census Records
Hampden, Maine Special Census of 1837
Miscellaneous Resources
Heads of Family on Penobscot River, 1776
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Hampden
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Hampden, Penobscot, Maine
Official Website: Town of Hampden
Maine Community Heritage Project: Hampden
Bibliography
Emerson, Paul, Hampden, Me. soldiers and sailors of the Civil War ([Frankfort, Me.? P. Emerson, 1998?])
Mitchell, H. E., The Hampden register 1904 (Kent's Hill, Maine: H. E. Mitchell Publishing Co., 1904)
Sylvester, Arthur Gibbs, and Richard Spinney, Hampden, Maine, Vital Records Prior to 1892 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2007)
Trickey, Katherine W., et al., ed., Historical sketches of the town of Hampden, Maine (Ellsworth, Me.: The Ellsworth American, 1976)
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