Eastport, Washington County
County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Newspapers · Miscellaneous Resources · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Washington County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1798 from Plantation No. 8 PS
Incorporated as a City
1893
Previous Designations
Township No. 8 Putnam Survey (T8 PS); Moose Island
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Lubec in 1811
Part of Lubec was annexed in 1847
Prominent Islands
Moose Island, Quoddy Village, Treat Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Eastport, Quoddy
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Campobello Island (N.B.), Lubec, Perry
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Eastport
Newspapers
The Quoddy Tides Newspaper Archive
Miscellaneous Resources
Original Members of the Eastport Female Benevolent Society
Crew List Arriving at Eastport, 1949-1958
Vital Records
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Eastport
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Eastport, Washington, Maine
Official Website: City of Eastport
Maine Memory Network: Eastport
Bibliography
Ayer, Sarah Connell, Diary of Sarah Connell Ayer. Andover and Newburyport, Massachusetts; Concord and Bow, New Hampshire; Portland and Eastport, Maine (Portland, Me.: Lefavor-Tower Company, 1910)
Bacon, George F., Calais, Eastport and vicinity, their representative business men, and points of interest: embracing Calais, Eastport, Machias, Machiasport, Milltown, Jonesport, Princeton, Millbridge, Cherryfield and Lubec (Newark, N.J.: Glenwood Pub. Co., c1892)
Brown, C. Donald, Eastport: a maritime history ([Eastport, Me.: Border History Research & Pub. Center], 1968)
Kilby, William Henry, Eastport and Passamaquoddy: a collection of historical and biographical sketches (Eastport, Me.: E.E. Shead & Co., 1888)
Weston, Jonathan D., The history of Eastport, and vicinity: a lecture, delivered April, 1834, before the Eastport Lyceum (Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1834)
Willey, Kenneth L., comp., Vital records from the Eastport Sentinal [i.e. Sentinel] of Eastport, Maine, 1818-1900 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1996)
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