Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Bridgewater 1883
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BRIDGEWATER.

Twenty-two miles N. of Houlton. On stage-line from Houlton to Upper Aroostook.
Originally Bridgewater and Portland Academy Grant. Incorporated March 2, 1858.
Population-1830, 143; 1860, 491; 1870, 605; 1880,722. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 94;
Estates, $44,372. 1870-Polls, 123; Estates, $83,263; 1880-Polls, 154; Estates,
$103,406.

  Postmaster-L. M. Hume.

  Selectmen-A. M. Stackpole, A. L. Chandler, J. K. Nelson.

  Town Clerk-A. W. Briggs.

  Treasurer-E. O. Collins.

  Collector-I. V. Durgin.

  Constables-E. O. Collins, I. V. Durgin.

  School Supervisor-Charles Kidder.

  Clergyman-Thomas Dewitt, F. Bap.

  Physicians-J. B. Cogswell, W. W. 'White.

  Justices-J. H. Kidder, Nov. 30, 1881. Quorum: Charles Kidder, July 2, 1879;
Geo. W. Collins, April 21, 1881, Trial.

  Merchants-Bedford Hume, John D. Baird, G. L. Freeman, G. W. Collins, John E.
Pryor, general stores; Moses Clough, confectionery; Anna Stitham, dry goods and
millinery; Emma Boon, millinery.

  Manufacturers-John E. Pryor, lumber; G. W. Collins, lumber and tanning; A. D.
Farley, boots and shoes; T. G. Huntington, Jonathan Loudon, Edwin Webber,
smiths; Starch Factory, G. W. Collins, proprietor; R. H. Perkins, Walter
Barrett, carpenters: John E. Pryor, buckwheat mill; G. W. Collins, saw mill.

  Library-Circulating.

  Hotel- Central House, J. H. Kidder.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

MAINE STATE YEAR-BOOK,
AND
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL,
FOR THE YEAR
1883-84,
FROM APRIL 1, 1883, TO APRIL 1, 1884,

BY EDMUND S. HOYT.
PREPARED PURSUANT TO ORDERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

PORTLAND: HOYT, FOGG &  DONHAM,
193 MIDDLE STREET.


Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1883, by HOYT, FOGG & DONHAM,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


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