Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Oakfield 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, 5:29 pm OAKFIELD PLANTATION. Fifteen miles west-south-west from Houlton, by stage route via Linneus. Organized a plantation April 17, 1866. Population-1870, 559; 1880, 636. Valuation, 1870-Polls-116; Estates, $25,068; 1880-Polls, 140; Estates, $41,100. Postmaster-William Gerrish. Assessors-Joseph T. Robbins, A. P. Rogers, John H. B. Matherson. Clerk-Franklin S. Higgins. Constable and Collector-John Lougee. Treasurer-Avon D. Weeks. School Supervisor-Charles T. Bussell. Clergymen-Vacant, Meth.; vacant, Bap. Justice-James Timony, Jan. 26, 1881; Joseph T. Robbins, Dec. 30, 1880, Quorum. Merchant-Lewis C. Sprague, general stores. Manufacturers-.Robert McElman, lumber; C. H. Plummer, J. B. D. Clark, Robert McElman; smiths; Amos Gilpatrick, cooper. 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/oakfield211gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb