Poland, Androscoggin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Vital Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Androscoggin County (set off from Cumberland County in 1854)
Incorporated
1795 from Bakerstown Plantation
Previous Designations
Bakerstown Plantation
Varney writes in his Gazetteer of Maine (1881) that "In 1787, the State of Massachusetts sold to John Bridgham and John Glover all the land belonging to that commonwealth lying between the towns of New Gloucester, Gray, Otisfield and Shepherdfield (now Hebron and Oxford), and appointed Samuel Titcomb to survey the same. As surveyed by him, the tract included all of Bakerstown, excepting about 1,100 acres." This tract, adjoining Raymondtown, was known for a short time as "Gloversborough" (or "Gloverboro"), though Titcomb's survey calls it "Bridgetown."
The easterly side of the town was part of the Pejepscot Purchase
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Minot in 1802, Mechanic Falls in 1893
Part of Thompson Pond Plantation was annexed in 1830
Part of an 80-rod strip was annexed in 1838, the remainder annexed to Raymond
Land was set of to Danville (now part of Auburn in 1852), and to Casco and Otisfield in 1858
Locations and Settlements
East Poland, Empire, Empire Road (former railroad station at East Poland), Five Corners, Oak Hill, Poland (Poland Corner), Poland Spring, Promised Land, Riccars (former railroad station), South Poland, West Poland
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Auburn, Casco, Mechanic Falls, Minot, New Gloucester, Otisfield, Oxford, Raymond
Maps
Military Records
Mechanic Falls Civil War Soldiers
World War I Soldiers Index: Poland
Vital Records
Marriage Records of Rev. Jonathan Scott of Poland and Minot, 1796-1819
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Poland, Androscoggin, Maine
Official Website: Town of Poland
Maine Memory Network: Poland Spring
Maine Memory Network: East Poland
Bibliography
______, Poland Spring centennial : a souvenir (South Poland, Me.: Hiram Ricker & Sons, 1895)
______, "Early Vital Records of Poland, Maine," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 88 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1934)
Ladd, William, "Annals of Bakerstown, Poland, and Minot," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1847)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, comp., The town register: Poland, Raymond and Casco, 1906 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)
Poole, H. A., History of Poland: embracing a period of over a century (Mechanic Falls, Me.: Poole Bros., 1890)
Pulsifer, William E., Ancestry and descendants of Jonathan Pulsifer and his wife, Nancy Ryerson Pulsifer of Poland and Sumner, Maine (New York, N.Y., 1928)
Ricker, Alvan B., et al., Poland centennial, September 11, 1895 : with illustrations and biographical sketches (New York, N. Y.: Printed by Andrew H. Kellogg, c1896)
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