Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations (Dover) · Previous Designations (Foxcroft) · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Piscataquis County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816, to Piscataquis County in 1838)
Incorporated
1922 (Dover incorporated 1822; Foxcroft incorporated 1812)
Previous Designations (Dover)
Township No. 3, Sixth Range North of Waldo Patent (T3 R6 NWP); Plantation No. 3
Previous Designations (Foxcroft)
Township No. 5, Seventh Range North of Waldo Patent (T5 R7 NWP); one of the Bowdoin College townships
Boundary Changes
Part of Sebec was annexed to Dover in 1818
Land was set off from Foxcroft to Plantation No. 3 (later Dover) in 1818, and to T7 R8 NWP (now Bowerbank) in 1828
Dover and Foxcroft united in 1922 to form Dover-Foxcroft
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Dover-Foxcroft, Dover South Mills, East Dover, Goff Corners (Goffs Corner), Greeley (Greeleys Landing), Hurd Corner, Merrick Square (former post office), Parson Landing, Starbirds (Starbird Siding), Steadman Landing, South Dover, West Dover
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Atkinson, Barnard Township, Bowerbank, Garland, Guilford, Sangerville, Sebec
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Dover-Foxcroft
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Dover
World War I Soldiers Index: Foxcroft
Newspapers
Maine Obituaries: The Piscataquis Observer
Dover-Foxcroft Newspapers - from Digital Archives of Thompson Free Library
Vital Records
Some Early Vital Records of Dover
Miscellaneous Resources
Maine Town Reports: Dover-Foxcroft
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine
Official Website: Town of Dover-Foxcroft
Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Dover-Foxcroft
Maine Memory Network: Foxcroft
Bibliography
______, Some Dover-Foxcroft Maine genealogy ([S.l.: s.n., 1997])
Buzzell, Iris, John Arnold, and Leroy Gearl, Family histories of Atkinson, Sebec, Bowerbank and Dover-Foxcroft, Me. ([S.l.: s.n.], 1998)
Keniston, Frank W., Biographies of Dover-Foxcroft (1948)
Lowell, Mary Chandler, Old Foxcroft, Maine: traditions and memories, with family records (Concord, N.H.: Printed by the Rumford Press, c1935)
Mitchell, H. E., The Dover and Foxcroft Register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)
Smith, Edgar C., The early history of Dover and Foxcroft (Dover, Me.: Piscataquis Observer, 1902)
Sprague, John F., Foxcroft, Maine, 1812-1912: proceedings of the centennial celebration, October 1, 1912, (Dover, Me.: J. F. Sprague, 1917)
Stevens, Louis E., Booming!: Dover and Foxcroft from 1881-1892 ([S.l.: L.E. Stevens, 1980-1996] (Newport, Me.? Newport Print Shoppe))
Stevens, Louis E., Dover-Foxcroft: a history (Somersworth, N.H.: Published by New Hampshire Printers, c1995)
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