Islesboro, Waldo County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Newspapers · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Waldo County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Waldo County in 1827)
Incorporated
1789 from Long Island Plantation
Previous Designations
Long Island
Prominent Islands
Islesboro Island, Job Island, Seven Hundred Acre Island, Spruce Island, Warren Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Dark Harbor (Darkharbor), Isleboro, North Islesboro, Pripet
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Brooksville, Castine, Deer Isle, Lincolnville, North Haven, Northport
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Islesboro
Cemeteries
Islesboro Cemeteries & Gravesites
Newspapers
Islesboro Newspapers — from Digital Archives of Alice L. Pendleton Library
Vital Records
Deaths in Islesboro, 1781-1879
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Islesboro
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Islesboro, Waldo, Maine
Official Website: Town of Islesboro
Digital Maine: Islesboro Books
Islesboro Historical Society & Museum
Maine Memory Network: Islesboro
Maine Community Heritage Project: Islesboro
Bibliography
Cook, Joel, An Isleboro sketch (Boston, Mass.: Boston Photogravure Co., 1890)
Farrow, John Pendleton, History of Islesborough, Maine (Bangor Me.: T.W. Burr, printer, 1893)
Groves, Marlene Alma Hinkley, comp., Vital records of Islesboro, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c2000)
Mitchell, H. E., The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 [Ancestry.com] (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)
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