Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Moro Plantation 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 30, 2007, 5:18 pm MORO PLANTATION. Twenty-four miles west of Houlton. On stage line from Patten to Ashland. Settled 1837, by Lewis, Bradford, and Brown. Organized into a plantation under name of Rockabema, in 1850. Name changed in 1860. Population-1870, 107; 1880, 171. Valuation, 1880-Polls, 39; Estates, $46,693. Postmasters-Miss Martha Bates. Rockabema, H. T. Knowles. Assessors-Llewellyn W. Kilgore, E. F. Bradford, C. E. Baston. Clerk-G. A. P. Bryant. Treasurer-Amos F. Chase. School Committee-L. W. Kilgore, Jas. B. Knowles, J. W. Baston. Constable and Collector-George A. P. Bryant. Justice-George A. P. Bryant, Jan. 26, 1881, Quorum. Clergyman--R. L. Manton, Meth. Merchant-Enoch H.Phalon, genera] stores. Manufacturers-D. B. Bates, lumber; L. H. Shaw, smith; C. A. & A. F, Chase, clapboard mill. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/aroostook/directories/business/1883/moroplan208gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb