Maine Places

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

County

Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1799)

Organized

With the future town of Wales as Freetown Plantation, then as Bloomingboro Plantation about 1780, the name changed a year later to Wales Plantation

Incorporated

1792

Previous Designations

Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Annabessacook (former railroad station), East Monmouth, Monmouth, North Monmouth, South Monmouth, Tacoma

Boundary Changes

"In 1809, taken from Monmouth and annexed to Leeds, was a piece of land 160 rods wide and the length of the line between the towns." [Stinchfield, History of the town of Leeds (1901), p. 1]

Land was set off to Winthrop in 1813, to Wales in 1855

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Leeds, Litchfield, Wales, Wayne, West Gardiner, Winthrop

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Monmouth

Church Records

Church records, 1817-1847, Church of Christ, Monmouth, Maine

Church records, 1817-1840, Second Church of Christ, Monmouth, Maine

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Monmouth

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine

Official Website: Town of Monmouth

MEGenWeb Project: Monmouth

Maine Memory Network: Monmouth

Bibliography

Bateman, Lucius C., A Progessive Village Is That of North Monmouth—Its Early History and Some Wild Indian Tales," Lewiston Journal Illustrated Magazine Section, 19 Apr. 1902

Cochrane, Harry H., History of Monmouth and Wales, Volume I (East Winthrop, Me.: Banner Co., 1894)

Cochrane, Harry H., History of Monmouth and Wales, Volume II (East Winthrop, Me.: Banner Co., 1894)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register, Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds, Greene: 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Webster, West Gardiner, Litchfield, and Monmouth register, 1909 (Augusta, Me.: Mitchell Pub. Co., 1909)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Winthrop and Monmouth register, 1909 (Augusta, Me.: The Mitchell-Cony Co., 1909)