Maine Places

County · Organized · Previous Designations · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Maps · Census Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Lincoln County (set off from York County in 1760)

Organized

1839

Previous Designations

Part of the Pemaquid Patent

Prominent Islands

Manana Island (Monanis, Mananas), Monhegan Island (Isle St. George, Isle La Nef, St. Georges Island)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Deadman Cove (Dead Mans Cove), Christmas Cove, Fish Beach, Horns Hill, Lobster Cove, Monhegan

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Monhegan Plantation

Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Monhegan Plantation

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Monhegan, Lincoln, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Monhegan

Bibliography

Dodge, Christine Huston, comp., Vital records of Old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine: including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the Plantation of Monhegan [Vol. II - Marriages] ([Pemaquid, Me.]: Pemaquid Historical Association under the authority of the Maine Historical Society; [Newcastle, Me.]: Lincoln County Publishing Co., 1988)

Ellsworth, Wolcott W., Monhegan Island, Maine (Hartford, Conn.: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1912)

Jenney, Charles Francis, The fortunate island of Monhegan: a historical monograph (Worcester, Mass.: Davis Press, 1922)

Parker, Arlita Dodge, A History of Pemaquid; with Sketches of Monhegan, Popham and Castine (Boston, Mass.: MacDonald & Evans, 1925)

Proper, Ida Sedgwick, Monhegan, the Cradle of New England (Portland Me.: Southworth Press, 1930)

Woodbury, Charles Levi, Pemaquid and Monhegan (1892)