Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Waldo County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Waldo County in 1827)

Incorporated

1789

Previous Designations

Territory "from Belfast to Wheeler's Mills." Called "Frankfort Plantation" on one early map.

Boundary Changes

Land was set off to form Hampden and Prospect in 1794, and Winterport in 1860

One estate was set off to Hampden in 1816

Land was set off to Swanville in 1832, Monroe in 1863, and Winterport in 1867

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Frankfort, Frankfort Mills (former post office at Frankfort), Marsh Village (former village), Mount Waldo (former railroad station), West Frankfort (former post office)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Monroe, Prospect, Searsport, Swanville, Winterport

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Frankfort

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Frankfort

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Frankfort, Waldo, Maine

Frankfort and Winterport, Me. Genealogy

Bibliography

Jones, Erasmus, History of the town of Frankfort (Frankfort, Me.?: C.R. Lougee, 1897)

Mosher, Elizabeth M., comp., Vital records of Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine: including marriages, military and census records up to and including the year 1941 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1999)