Augusta, Kennebec County
County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Newspapers · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1799)
Incorporated
1797 as Harrington from part of Hallowell; name changed to Augusta the same year
Incorporated as a City
1849
Previous Designations
Cushnoc (Cushena, Cushanna, Cushenac, etc.); Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase)
Boundary Changes
Parts set off to Winthrop in 1810, and to Hallowell in 1812, 1813, and 1852
Land was set off to form the town of Kennebec (later Manchester) in 1850
A strip of land from Manchester was annexed in 1856
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Augusta, Bolton (former post office), Coombs Mills (Coombs' Mills), Hallowell Court House (former post office), Kennebec (former railroad station), North Augusta
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Chelsea, China, Hallowell, Manchester, Sidney, Vassalboro, Whitefield, Windsor
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Augusta
Newspapers
Daily Kennebec Journal — at Chronicling America
Kennebec Journal - 1870-present [Newspapers.com]
Maine Newspapers at Internet Archive — Search Maine Farmer (1833-1900)
Maine Farmer (1833-1900)
Maine Obituaries: Kennebec Journal
Maine Obituaries: Central Maine (Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel)
Miscellaneous Resources
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Augusta
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine
Official Website: City of Augusta
Bibliography
______, Directory of the inhabitants, institutions, manufacturing establishments ... in the cities of Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner for 1882 (Augusta, [Me.]: J.F. Pierce, 1882)
______, Augusta-Hallowell on the Kennebec. Compiled by workers of the writers' program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Maine ([Augusta, Me.] Kennebec Journal Print Shop, 1940)
______, Index to The history of Augusta, Maine, by James W. North (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, c1994)
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
______, The Romance of Augusta 1797-1947 ([Augusta, Me.: The Augusta Press, 1947)
Beck, Joseph T., Historical Notes on Augusta, Maine (Farmington, Me., Knowlton & McLeary Co., printers, 1962-63)
Boardman, Samuel Lane, "A Chapter in the History of Ancient Cushnoc — Now Augusta," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 2 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1906)
Conant, Edith Colby, Vital records of Augusta, Maine, to the year 1892 ([Auburn, Me.: Press of Merrill & Webber Company], 1933)
Dow, George Francis, Fort Western on the Kennebec: the story of its construction in 1754 and what has happened there (Augusta, Me.: Gannett Pub. Co., 1922)
Jones, Herbert G., Koussinoc, the Indian trading post (1938)
Labonté, Youville, comp., Marriages of St. Augustine, Augusta, Me. (1888-1981) (Lewiston, Me.: Y. Labonte, 1983)
Nash, Charles Elventon, The history of Augusta; first settlements and early days as a town, including the diary of Mrs. Martha Moore Ballard, 1785 to 1812 (Augusta, Me., Charles E. Nash & Son, 1904 [i.e. 1961])
North, James William, The history of Augusta, from the earliest settlement to the present time: with notices of the Plymouth Company, and settlements on the Kennebec; together with biographical sketches and genealogical register (Augusta, Me.: Clapp and North, 1870)
Sanborn, Helen W., History of Augusta: of the people, by the people, for the people ([s.l.]: The Author, 1976)
Violette, Maurice, The Franco-Americans: a Franco-American's chronicle of historical and cultural environment: Augusta revisited (New York: Vantage Press, c1976)
Weston, D. C., Scenes in a vestry: being an account of the late controversy in the South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta (Augusta Me.: W.R. Smith & Co., printers, 1841)
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