Maine Places

Resource Guide

Windsor, Kennebec County

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County

Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1812)


Incorporated

1809 as the town of Malta from New Waterford Plantation; name changed to Gerry in 1821, and to Windsor in 1822


Previous Designations

Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); New Waterford; Pinhook Settlement


Boundary Changes

Annexed part of Whitefield in 1821; this land was returned in 1907 by repeal of the 1821 act


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Hall Corner, North Windsor, South Windsor, Tylers Corner, West Windsor, Windsor, Windsor Corner, Windsor Neck, Windsor Station, Windsorville (Maxcy's Mills)


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Augusta, China, Jefferson, Somerville, Vassalboro, Whitefield


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Windsor


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Windsor


General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Windsor, Kennebec, Maine

Official Website: Town of Windsor

Maine Memory Network: Windsor


Bibliography

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Windsor register 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell, 1905)

Sproul, Faye, Index to vital records from the First book of records of present day Windsor in Kennebec County in what is now the state of Maine (Augusta, Me.: F. Sproul, 1990)

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