Pleasant Ridge Plantation, Somerset County
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County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Organized
1840 as Plantation No. 1, Second Range BKP WKR
Reorganized
1875 as Pleasant Ridge Plantation, and again in 1878; successor to former plantation organized in 1895
Previous Designations
Township No. 1, Second Range Bingham's Kennebec Purchase, West of Kennebec River (T1 R2 BKP WKR)
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to Concord (now Concord Township) in 1829, and annexed from the same in 1860
The south half of the plantation was set off and organized as Granville Plantation in 1878; deorganized and reannexed in 1879
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Pleasant Ridge, Rowe Pond (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Carrying Place Township, Concord Township, Highland Plantation, Moscow
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Pleasant Ridge Plantation
Census Records
1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Pleasant Ridge Plantation
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Pleasant Ridge Plantation, Somerset, Maine
Bibliography
Hunnewell, Robert E., Pleasant Ridge Plantation: "the way life used to be" ([S.l.: R.E. Hunnewell?, between 2000 and 2002])
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