Pittsfield, Somerset County
County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Newspapers · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Organized
1815 as Sebasticook Plantation
Incorporated
1819 as Warsaw; name changed to Pittsfield in 1824
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Plymouth Gore; Upper Sebasticook Settlement; Sebasticook
Boundary Changes
That part of town lying south and east of the Sebasticook River was set off to Twenty-five Mile Pond Plantation (now Burnham) in 1821
Land was set off to Canaan in 1824
Part of Palmyra was annexed in 1824
Two estates were set off to Clinton in 1830
Part of Detroit was annexed in 1855
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Burton Corner, East Pittsfield (former post office at Pittsfield), Emerson Corner, Half Way (former railroad station), Mosher Corner, Nash Corner, Phillips Corner, Pittsfield, South Pittsfield (former post office), Tilton Corner, Waverly, Weeks Corner, West Pittsfield (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Burnham, Canaan, Clinton, Detroit, Hartland, Palmyra
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Pittsfield
Newspapers
Pittsfield Newspapers — from Digital Archives of Pittsfield Public Library
Vital Records
Deaths of Aged Persons in Gardiner and Pittston
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Pittsfield
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Pittsfield, Somerset, Maine
Official Website: Town of Pittsfield
Pittsfield Town Meeting Records and Selectmen's Reports — at Digital Archives at Pittsfield Public Library
Maine Memory Network: Pittsfield
Bibliography
______, The East Somerset County Register, 1911-1912 (Auburn, Me.: Chatto & Turner, 1912)
______, Pittsfield sesquicentennial, 1819-1969 ([Pittsfield, Me.: s.n.], 1969)
Cook, Sanger Mills, Pittsfield on the Sebasticook (Bangor, Me., Printed by Furbush-Roberts Print. Co. [1966])
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Pittsfield register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Publishing Co., 1904)
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