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Greene, Androscoggin County

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County

Androscoggin County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Androscoggin County in 1854)


Incorporated

1788 from part of Lewiston Plantation (the remainder incorporated as Lewiston in 1795)


Previous Designations

Part of the Pejepscot Purchase


Boundary Changes

Part of one lot was set off to Lewiston in 1852

Land was set off to Webster (now Sabattus) in 1895


Villages, Locations and Settlements

Alta (former post office, established in 1900), East Greene (former post office), Foggs Corner, Greene (Greene Village), Greene Corner (Greene Corners), Greene Depot (former post office at Greene), Nason Beach, North Greene (former post office), Sprague Mill


Adjacent Towns and Townships

Auburn, Leeds, Lewiston, Sabattus, Turner, Wales


Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Greene


Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Greene

Greene Military Men


Vital Records

Town of Greene: Vital Records

Greene Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1803-1850

Greene Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1851-1900


General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Greene, Androscoggin, Maine

Official Website: Town of Greene

MEGenWeb Project: Greene

Maine Memory Network: Greene


Bibliography

______, Souvenir of Greene & Leeds, 1911 (Brunswick, Me.: Maine Map & Register, [1911])

______, "Old Times in Greene: Reminiscences of Rev. S. S. Cummings of the Home for Little Wanderers," Lewiston Journal Illustrated Magazine Section, 29 Aug. 1888

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register, Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds, Greene: 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)

Mower, Walter L., Sesquicentennial history of the town of Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine: 1775 to 1900, with some matter extending to a later date (Auburn, Me.: Merrill & Webber, 1938)

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