Pittsfield, Somerset County

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County

Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)

Organized

1815 as Sebasticook Plantation

Incorporated

1819 as Warsaw; name changed to Pittsfield in 1824

Previous Designations

Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Plymouth Gore; Upper Sebasticook Settlement; Sebasticook

Boundary Changes

That part of town lying south and east of the Sebasticook River was set off to Twenty-five Mile Pond Plantation (now Burnham) in 1821

Land was set off to Canaan in 1824

Part of Palmyra was annexed in 1824

Two estates were set off to Clinton in 1830

Part of Detroit was annexed in 1855

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Burton Corner, East Pittsfield (former post office at Pittsfield), Emerson Corner, Half Way (former railroad station), Mosher Corner, Nash Corner, Phillips Corner, Pittsfield, South Pittsfield (former post office), Tilton Corner, Waverly, Weeks Corner, West Pittsfield (former post office)