Waterville, Kennebec County
County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Newspapers · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1799)
Incorporated
1802 from part of Winslow
Incorporated as a City
1888
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Kingsfield
Boundary Changes
Parts of Dearborn (incorporated in 1812 from West Pond Plantation) were annexed in 1815, 1822, and 1826, and a remnant of that town, Dearborn Plantation, was annexed in 1843
Land was set off in 1873 to form West Waterville (now Oakland)
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Waterville
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Clinton, Oakland, Sidney, Winslow
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Waterville
Cemeteries
St. Francis Cemetery (Maine Catholic Cemetery Committee's online database)
Newspapers
Morning Sentinel - 1904-present [Newspapers.com]
Maine Obituaries: Waterville Morning Sentinel)
Maine Obituaries: Central Maine (Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
The Waterville Mail (1863-1906)
Miscellaneous Resources
Waterville Municipal Officers, 1771-1908
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Waterville
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Waterville, Kennebec, Maine
Official Website: City of Waterville
Maine Memory Network: Waterville
Bibliography
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
______, The Centennial history of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine: including the oration, the historical address and the poem presented at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town, June 23d, 1902 (Waterville: Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration, 1902)
Bangs, Isaac S., Military history of Waterville, Maine: including the names and record, so far as known, of all soldiers from Waterville, in the several wars of the republic: a portion of the records of the Waterville Monument Association, and a sketch of W.S. Heath Post, No. 14, G.A.R, Vol. 1 (Vol. 2) Augusta Me.: Kennebec Journal Print, 1902)
Chenard, Robert E., St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Waterville, Maine (Waterville, Me.: French Connection, [1994])
Giveen, Clement M., A chronology of municipal history and election statistics, Waterville, Maine, 1771-1908 (Augusta, Me.: Maine Farmer Press, 1908)
Labonté, Youville, comp., Marriages of St. Francis de Sales, Waterville, Me. (1865-1979) (Auburn, Me.: Labonte, [1980])
Labonté, Youville, comp., Marriages of Sacred Heart, Waterville, Me. (1905-1980) and of Notre-Dame, Waterville, Me. (1910-1980) (Auburn, Me.: Y. Labonté, [1982])
Lang, Sara Drummond, comp., Vital records of Waterville, Maine, to the year 1892 (Waterville, Me.: A. Foster, 2002)
Lilly, Georgiana, comp., Records of Dearborn Maine ([Winthrop, Me.: Daughters of the American Revolution, Patience Stanley Chapter, D.A.R., 1937)
Marriner, Ernest Cummings, The history of Colby College (Waterville, Me.: Frank B. Philbrick, 1925)
Philbrick, Minnie Smith, Centennial history of The First Baptist Church of Waterville, Maine (Waterville, Me.: Colby College Press, 1963)
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