Rockport, Knox County

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County

Knox County (set off from Lincoln to Hancock County in 1789; returned to Lincoln County in 1790; set off to Waldo County in 1827, to Knox County in 1860)

Incorporated

1891 from part of the old town of Camden, Camden being reconstituted the same day

Previous Designations

Boundary Changes

Annexed land from Camden from 1891 and 1893

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Glen Cove (formerly Clam Cove), Oakland Park, Rockport (formerly Goose River), Rockville, Simonton (former post office), Simonton Corners, West Camden (former post office at West Rockport), West Rockport

Bibliography

______, The Camden Directory, 1894-5 (Shirley Village, Mass.: A. B. Sparrow, 1894)

______, Resident and Business Directory of Camden and Rockport, Maine , 1902-3 (No. Cambridge, Mass.: Edward A. Jones, 1902)

Bacon, George Fox, Rockland, Belfast and vicinity: its representative business men and its points of interest, embracing Rockland, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Thomaston, Waldoboro, Warren, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Newcastle (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1892)

Dietz, Lew, Camden Hills: an informal history of the Camden-Rockport region (Camden, Me.: Camden Herald Press, 1947)

Groves, Marlene A., comp., Vital records of Camden/Rockport, Maine (Rockland, Me.: Picton Press, 2006)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Rockport register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me., The H. E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)

Robinson, Reuel, History of Camden and Rockport, Maine (Camden, Me.: Camden Pub. Co., 1907)

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