Maine Places

Resource Guide

South Bristol, Lincoln County

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County

Lincoln County (set off from York County in 1760)


Incorporated

1915 from part of Bristol


Previous Designations

Part of the Pemaquid Patent, the southerly part named "Harrington" by David Dunbar in 1729


Prominent Islands

Inner Heron Island, Rutherford Island (formerly Katherine Island)


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Christmas Cove, Clarks Cove, Heron Island (former post office), South Bristol, Walpole, West Bristol


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Boothbay, Bristol, Edgecomb, Newcastle


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: South Bristol


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: South Bristol


General Resources

Official Website: Town of South Bristol

Maine Memory Network: Christmas Cove


Bibliography

Dodge, Christine Huston, comp., Vital records of Old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine: including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the Plantation of Monhegan [Vol. II - Marriages] ([Pemaquid, Me.]: Pemaquid Historical Association under the authority of the Maine Historical Society; [Newcastle, Me.]: Lincoln County Publishing Co., 1988)

Gamage, Nelson W., A Short History of South Bristol, Maine (1900)

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