Bangor, Penobscot County
County · Organized · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Census Records · Church Records · Directories · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)
Organized
1769 as Kenduskeag Plantation
Incorporated
1791
Incorporated as a City
1834
Previous Designations
Township No. 1, Second Range North of Waldo Patent (T1 R2 NWP); Kenduskeag (Kenderquit, Conduskeag, Kadesquit, Kundskee, etc.); Settlement at Kenduskeag Stream, Sunbury (proposed name)
Boundary Changes
Veazie was set off in 1853, and part of that town was reannexed in 1889
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bangor, East Bangor, North Bangor, North Bangor Station, Six Mile Falls, Stillwater Avenue, West Bangor
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Brewer, Glenburn, Hampden, Hermon, Orono, Veazie
Maps
Cemeteries
Mt. Hope Cemetery - Bangor, Maine
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (Maine Catholic Cemetery Committee's online database
Census Records
1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census
Church Records
Members of the First Congregational Church of Bangor, 1811-1856
Directories
Bangor, Maine City Directories, 1882-92 [Ancestry.com]
Military Records
War of 1812 Parolees from Bangor
World War I Soldiers Index: Bangor
Newspapers
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier - 1832-1900 [Newspapers.com]
Bangor Daily News - 1900-2011 [Newspapers.com]
Maine Obituaries: Bangor Daily News
Maine Newspapers at Internet Archive — Search the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (1837-1900)
Bangor Daily News (1970-2007) — at Google News Archive
Vital Records
Marriages in Bangor, 1796-1814
Bangor Marriage Intentions, 1806-1810
Bangor Marriage Intentions, 1821-1827
Miscellaneous Resources
Heads of Family on Penobscot River, 1776
Names From Major Robert Treat's Day Book, Bangor, 1786-90
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Bangor, Penobscot, Maine
Official Website: City of Bangor
Bangor Public Library Digital Commons — Includes digitized books, images, high school yearbooks and more
Bibliography
______, The Bangor directory (1834): containing the names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business, and dwelling houses, and the city register, with lists of the wharves, the city officers, public officers, banks and societies, and other information (Bangor, Me.: S.S. Smith, 1834)
______, The Bangor Directory, 1859-60 (Bangor, Me.: Samuel S. Smith, 1859)
______, The centennial celebration of the settlement of Bangor, September 30, 1869 (Bangor Me.: B.A. Burr, printer, 1870)
______, Bangor, Maine. Interesting facts briefly told (Bangor, Me.: C.H. Glass, printers, 1906)
______, 1919 Directory of Bangor and Brewer (Bangor, Me.: Cannon & Co., 1919)
______, Voices from the past: Bangor, the first hundred years, 1834-1978 (Bangor, Me.: Juniper Press, 1978)
______, Proceedings of the Bangor Historical Society, 1914-1915 (Bangor, Me., 1916)
Albans, Constantine, et al., Bygone Bangor: a compilation of thirteen stories (Bangor, Me.: Bangor Daily News, 1976)
Bacon, George Fox, Bangor: its points of interest and its representative business men; including an historical sketch of Brewer (Newark, N.J.: Glenwood Publishing Company, 1891)
Berlin, Marc, et al., The story of Bangor: a brief history of Maine's queen city (Bangor, Me.: BookMarc's Publishing, 1999)
Chenard, Robert E., comp., Marriages of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, Maine (1860-1960): including 1836-1892 Franco-American marriages recorded in the civil registers of Bangor, Bradley, Brewer, Old Town, and Orono and death records of St. Joseph to 1946 ([Waterville, Me.?: R.E. Chenard, 1993?])
Field, George W., Fiftieth anniversary of the Central Congregational Church: historical address (Bangor, Me.: Press of the Industrial Journal, 1897)
Paine, Albert Ware, "The territorial history of Bangor and Vicinity," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, First Series, Vol. 9 (Portland, Me., 1887)
Porter, Joseph W., ed., The Bangor historical magazine: later the Maine Historical magazine, 1885-1894 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 1993)
Swett, David Livingston, Bangor First Church: history of the First United Methodist Church of Bangor, Maine from the first visit of Jesse Lee in 1793 through 1976 ([s.l., 1976])
Thomas, Michelle E., Vital Records of Bangor, Maine Vol. 1: Birth Records (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2002)
Vickery, James B., ed., An illustrated history of the city of Bangor, Maine, formerly the plantation of Conduskeag or Kenduskeag in ye country of Arcadia on the river named Penobscot, containing narratives of ye ancient sites and persons ([s.l.: s.n., 1976] (Bangor, Me: Bangor Bi-cenntennial Committee))
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