Maine Places

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

County

Aroostook County (set off from Hancock County to Penobscot County in 1816, to Aroostook County in 1839)

Organized

1845 as Golden Ridge Plantation for election purposes, and again in 1860

Incorporated

1862

Previous Designations

Township No. 3, Fifth Range West of the Easterly Line of the State; (T3 R5 WELS); Golden Ridge

Boundary Changes

Part of Silver Ridge Plantation (now Silver Ridge Township) was annexed in 1870

Part of Crystal Plantation (now Crystal) was annexed in 1881

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Braggville (former post office at Sherman Station), Coral (former post office), East Sherman (former post office), Golden Ridge, Number Three (later West Sherman, a former post office), Patten Junction (former railroad station), Sherman Mills, Sherman Station, Woodbridge Corner

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Benedicta Township, Crystal, Silver Ridge Township, Stacyville, T3 R4 WELS

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Sherman

Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Sherman

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Sherman, Aroostook, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Sherman

Maine Memory Network: Sherman Mills

Maine Memory Network: Golden Ridge

Bibliography

Spooner, May H., comp., Sherman, Maine in the Civil War (S.l. : s.n., [1927?])