Maine Places

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

County

Aroostook County (set off from Washington County in 1839)

Organized

By 1879 and again in 1896 as Westfield Plantation for the assessment of taxes; doings of the plantation legalized in 1893

Incorporated

1905

Previous Designations

Township No. 10, Second Range West of the Easterly Line of the State (T10 R2 WELS); Westfield Academy and Deerfield Academy Grants

Boundary Changes

An adjacent unincorporated gore running the length of the town's westerly line was annexed in 1921

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Westfield

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Chapman, E Township, Easton, Mars Hill, Presque Isle, T10 R3 WELS

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Westfield

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Westfield

General Resources

Maine Memory Network: Westfield

Bibliography

Day, Clarence Albert, A history of the town of Westfield : in the nineteenth century (typescript, 1945-1972)