Maine Places

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

County

Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)

Incorporated

1829

Previous Designations

River Townships No. 2 and No. 3 (belonging to the second and third ranges, respectively), and a half township granted to J. E. Foxcroft; Mattanawcook

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Chamberlains (former railroad station), East Lincoln (former post office), Libby Corner, Lincoln, Lincoln Center, Mattanawcook (former post office at Lincoln), Middletown (former railroad station), North Lincoln, Pollard Brook, South Lincoln, South Lincoln Station (former railroad station at Pollard Brook)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Burlington, Chester, Enfield, Lee, Lowell, Mattamiscontis Township, T2 R8 NWP, Winn

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Lincoln

Vital Records

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 A-B

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 C-D

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 E-G

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 H-I

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 J-L

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 M-P

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 R-S

Lincoln, Maine Marriages Before 1892 T-Y

Lincoln, Maine Births Before 1892 A-H

Lincoln, Maine Births Before 1892 J-W

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Lincoln

Miscellaneous Records

Penobscot School Register of Mattanawcook Island, 1860

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine

Official Website: Town of Lincoln

Maine Memory Network: Lincoln

Maine Community Heritage Project: Lincoln

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)

Bailey, May Murray Edwards, History of Trans Alpine : the southernmost part of the town of Lincoln, Maine, beyond the Alps (Lincoln, Me.: 1950)

Fellows, Dana Willis, History of the town of Lincoln, Penobscot County, Maine, 1822- 1928 (Lewiston, Me., Printed by the Dingley press, inc. [c1929])

Fuller, Francis H., Vital Records of Lincoln, Maine, 1829-1892 / Manual of Lincoln Congregational Church, 1831-1912 (Unpublished typescript transcription, 1912)

Goodwin, Kathryn B., Personal glimpses of the early settlers of Lincoln, Maine ( [Maine?: s.n.], 1970)

Hawkins, Alan H., ed., The Mattanawcook Observer: a magazine of local history and genealogy of Lincoln, Maine and surrounding towns ([Falmouth Foreside, Me.: s.n.], 1982- )

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Lincoln and Enfield Register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub., 1905)