Orono, Penobscot County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Church Records · Military Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)
Incorporated
1806 from Stillwater Plantation
Previous Designations
Township No. 5 Old Indian Purchase, West of Penobscot River (T5 OIP WPR); Colburnton (or Colborntown) Settlement; Deadwater; Stillwater
Boundary Changes
The upper part of the town-including part of T4 OIP WPR-were set off to form Old Town in 1840
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Basin Mills, Cunningham Landing, Dufour Landing, Elliot Landing, Gould Landing, Orono, Villa Vaughn, Webster
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Bradley, Bangor, Eddington, Glenburn, Old Town, Veazie
Maps
Church Records
Orono, Maine. First Congregational Church Records, 1830-1858
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Orono
Vital Records
Orono Marriage Intentions, 1808-1816
Miscellaneous Resources
Heads of Family on Penobscot River, 1776
University of Maine Students, Alumni and Faculty in World War I
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Official Website: Town of Orono
Bibliography
______, Centennial celebration, and dedication of town hall, Orono, Maine, March 3, 1874 (Portland Me.: Bailey & Noyes, 1874)
______, Orono, Maine: a bicentennial view ([Orono: The Committee, 1976])
Chenard, Robert E., comp., Marriages of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, Maine (1860-1960): including 1836-1892 Franco-American marriages recorded in the civil registers of Bangor, Bradley, Brewer, Old Town, and Orono and death records of St. Joseph to 1946 ([Waterville, Me.?: R.E. Chenard, 1993?])
Day, Clarence Albert, Historical Sketch of Orono ([Orono, Me.], 1956)
Doty, C. Stewart, Orono, 1806-2006 ([Orono, Me.: Orono Historical Society], c2006)
Glanville, A. Douglas, A collection of 'Old Orono oddments' ([Orono, Me.]: Orono Historical Society, [1993?] (Milford, Me.: The Print Shop))
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Orono register, 1904 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)
Norton, David, "Sketches of Old Town and Orono," Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, vol. 9 (Portland, Me., 1898)
Rogers, Hannah W., comp., "A history of Orono, Maine," (typescript, 1926)
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