Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Church Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Sagadahoc County (set off from Lincoln County in 1854)
Incorporated
1814 from part of Georgetown
Previous Designations
Once considered part of the Pejepscot Purchase, but annexed to the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase) in 1766
With Bath and West Bath was anciently called Small Point Neck
The southern part of the town was until 1741 part of North Yarmouth
Boundary Changes
Ragged Island was set off to Harpswell in 1891
Certain islands in Casco Bay were annexed in 1903, but set off again in 1905 when the previous act was repealed
Bushy, Hen, Bear, Malaga, Burnt Coat, Black Snake, Wood, Little Wood, and Gooseberry Islands were annexed in 1917
Prominent Islands
Bear Island, Harbor Island, Hermit Island, Lee Island, Wood Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Ashdale, Brightwater, Cape Small (or Cliffstone, a former post office at Small Point Beach), Cliffstone, Fort Baldwin, Hunnewell's Point (former post office at Popham Beach), Meadowbrook (Meadow Brook), Parker Head (Parker's Head), Phippsburg, Popham Beach, Sebasco, Sebasco Estates, Small Point, Small Point Beach, West Point (Westpoint), Winnegance
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Arrowsic, Bath, Georgetown, Harpswell, West Bath
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Phippsburg
Church Records
Phippsburg, Maine. Congregational Church Records, 1765-1837 — founded as the First Church of Georgetown
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Phippsburg
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine
Official Website: Town of Phippsburg
Maine Memory Network: Phippsburg
Maine Memory Network: Popham Beach
Bibliography
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Phippsburg, Georgetown, Arrowsic, West Bath, Westport, 1906 (Brunswick, Me., The H. E. Mitchell co., 1906)
Parker, Arlita Dodge, A History of Pemaquid; with Sketches of Monhegan, Popham and Castine (Boston, Mass.: MacDonald & Evans, 1925)
Reed, Parker McCobb, History of the lower Kennebec, 1602-1889 (Bath, Me.: [s.n.], 1889 (Sentinel and Times Print))
Wheeler, Henry Warren, "Ancient Augusta," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 3 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1892)
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