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Moose River, Somerset County

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County

Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)


Organized

1852 as Moose River Plantation for election purposes, together with Sandy River Township and T4 R1 NBKP (now Jackman)


Reorganized

1859 as Moose River Plantation for election purposes, multiple-township plantations having been abolished; organized in 1893; a successor to the former plantation was organized in 1895; organized in 1903 for the assessment of taxes


Incorporated

1957


Previous Designations

Township No. 4, Second Range North of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (T4 R2 NBKP); Holdentown; Holden Plantation


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Jackman Mill, Moose River


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Baldtown Township, Dennistown Plantation, Jackman, Thorndike Township


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Moose River


Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census


Court Records

Moose River Trial Justice Court Records


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Moose River Plantation


General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Moose River, Somerset, Maine

MEGenWeb Project: Moose River


Bibliography

______, The history of Moose River Valley: Jackman, Moose River, Dennistown, Long Pond, Parlin Pond, Holeb, Skinner and Lowelltown ([Jackman, Maine]: Jackman Bicentennial Book Committee, [1976])

Sprague, John Francis, "Jackman and the Moose River Region (Somerset County, Maine)," Sprague's Journal of Maine History, vol. 3, No. 2 (July 1915)

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