Maine Places

County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · 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

1841 as Salmon Brook Plantation

Incorporated

1861

Previous Designations

Township No. 13, Third Range West of the Easterly Line of the State (T13 R3 WELS); Salmon Brook

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Adaline, Bugbee, Crouseville, Jacobs, Shaw (railroad station), Wade Road (former railroad station), Washburn

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Caribou, Mapleton, Presque Isle, Wade, Woodland

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Washburn

Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Washburn

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Washburn, Aroostook, Maine

First Settlers of the Aroostook River Valley: Washburn

Crouseville, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Washburn

Bibliography

______, Washburn, one hundred years of progress 1861-1961 ([Maine : s.n., 1961?])

Carter, Ray H., An informal history of Washburn, Maine : the lives and times of Salmon Brook, Aroostook County, Maine (Falmouth, Me. : Kennebec River Press, Inc., c1987)

Tasker, William J., The Pioneer Homes of Washburn, Maine: Including Perham, Wade and Crouseville (Caribou, Me.: Monkey Publishing, c2006)