Anson, Somerset County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Incorporated
1798
Previous Designations
Township No. 1, First Range North of Plymouth Claim, West of Kennebec River (T1 R1 NPC WKR); Titcombtown; Brookfield
The settlement along the Carrabassett River in this town, New Portland, and Embden, was called Seven Mile Brook Settlement
Boundary Changes
Part of Embden was annexed in 1828, and part of New Vineyard in 1840
Land was set off to Industry in 1823, and to New Portland in 1830
North Anson was set off to form its own town in 1845, but was re-annexed in 1855
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Anson (Anson Lower Village), Dane Corner, Five Corners, North Anson, South Anson (former post office at Anson), West Anson (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Embden, Industry, Madison, New Portland, New Vineyard, Starks
Maps
Military Records
Civil War Soldiers of Madison and Anson Lower Village
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Anson, Somerset, Maine
Bibliography
______, Old Home Week, Madison and Anson (Maine), August 7-13, 1927 ([S.l.: s.n., 1927)
Ela, David H., comp., Vital records of Anson, Maine: Part 1 ([s.l. ; s.n.], 1975)
Hatch, William Collins, A history of the town of Industry, Franklin County, Maine, from the earliest settlement in 1787 down to the present time, embracing the cessions of New Sharon, New Vineyard, Anson, and Stark (Farmington, Me.: Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co., 1893)
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