Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....New Sweden Plantation 1883
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NEW SWEDEN PLANTATION.

Sixty-two miles N. N. W. of Houlton, and eight miles N. W. of Caribou.
Originally Township No. 15, Range 3. Settled by fifty colonists from Sweden,
under the direction of the Hon. W. W. Thomas jr., Commissioner of Immigration.
July 23, 1870. Organized into a plantation April 6, 1876. In 1880 New Sweden
numbered 517 in population, and the entire Swedish colony, which had outgrown
New Sweden and spread over the adjacent portions of Woodland, Caribou and
Perham, numbered 787 souls, an increase of 1474 per cent, in a decade. In 1880
this Swedish colony had cleared 4438 acres of land, built a church, town-house,
5 school houses, 3 mills, 163 dwelling houses and 151 barns, and constructed 42
1/2 miles of road. The colony owned 164 horses; 659 head of cattle, 530 sheep
and lambs, 175 swine and 1920 poultry. In 1879 the colony harvested 982 tons of
hay, 1364 bushels of wheat, 5256 bushels of rye, 2861 bushels of buckwheat, 8501
bushels of oats and 25,000 bushels of potatoes. The egg product was 9715 dozen.
The Swedes made 1 ton of cheese and 7 tons of butter, and clipped 1393 pounds of
wool. The colony is a thrifty and successful agricultural community, and has
attracted to Maine a thousand Swedish immigrants in addition to its own numbers,
who are located in every section of the State. Population, 1880, 517. Valuation,
1880-Polls, 120; Estates, $22,041.

  Postmaster-Nicholas P. Clase.

  Assessors-Lars Lundvall, Carl Jahobson, Hans Anderson.

  Clerk-C. A. A. Johnson.

  Treasurer-Pehr O. Juhlin.

  Collector-M. Sundstrom.

  Constable-Erich Ringdahl.

  School Supervisor-John F. Sundell.

  Clergymen-Andrew Wiren, Lutheran; P. A. England, Bap.

  Merchant-Carl A. A. Johnson,.general merchandise.


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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