Lebanon, York County

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Cemeteries · Maps · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography

County

York County

Incorporated

1767 from Lebanon Plantation

Previous Designations

Anciently known as Towwoh, also as the "New Township at the Head of the Berwick"

Boundary Changes

A tract called Woodman's Grant, and later Fox Ridge, was annexed in 1785, then set off to that part of Shapleigh now Acton in 1793

Part of Sanford was annexed in 1787, and part of Shapleigh in 1825

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Blaisdell Corners, Center Lebanon, East Lebanon, Fernald Shore, Lebanon, North Lebanon, Peaveyville, South Lebanon, West Lebanon

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Acton, Berwick, Milton (N.H.), North Berwick, Rochester (N.H.), Sanford

Bibliography

Chamberlain, George Walter, The Beginnings of Lebanon, Maine (West Lebanon, Me.: G.W. Chamberlain, 1936)

Chamberlain, George Walter, Soldiers of the American Revolution, of Lebanon, Maine (Weymouth, Mass.: Weymouth & Braintree Pub. Co., 1897)

Chamberlain, George Walter, ed., Vital records of Lebanon, Maine, to the year 1892, vol. 1 (Births) ([Boston, Mass.:] Published under authority of the Maine Historical Society, 1922-23)

Chamberlain, George Walter, ed., Vital records of Lebanon, Maine, to the year 1892, vol. 2 (Marriages) ([Boston, Mass.:] Published under authority of the Maine Historical Society, 1922-23)

Cowell, Christiana B., Life and writings of Mrs. Christiana B. Cowell: consort of Rev. D.B. Cowell who died in Lebanon, Maine, Oct. 8, 1862, aged 41 years (Biddeford, Me.: John E. Butler & Company, 1872)

Jones, Samuel Wingate, A history of the town of Lebanon, Maine: with a short biographical sketch of some of its first settlers (Lebanon, Me.: Lebanon Historical Society, 1992)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Acton, Shapleigh, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Lebanon, 1907 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell co., 1907)

Sinnett, Charles N., Historic Lebanon; Lebanon, Maine, and the grand work of its Congregational church in one hundred and thirty-eight years (Haverhill, Mass.: C. C. Morse & Son, 1903)

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