Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Perham 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, 5:35 pm PERHAM PLANTATION. Sixty-four miles N. N. W. of Houlton, via Caribou. Settlement commenced in 1860. Named in honor of Governor Sidney Perham, of Paris. Contains a valuable iron mine, yielding about forty-four per cent of iron, and free from sulphur. Organized as a plantation in 1867. Population, 1870-79; 1880, 346. Valuation, 1870-Polls, 26; Estates, $12,905; 1880- Polls, 99; Estates, $31,073. Postmasters-W. N. G. Place; East, Viola L. Blackstone. Assessors-Eben Files, C. B. Lovejoy, Lorenzo Hinkley. Clerk-W. N. G. Place. Treasurer-James Nutting. Collector-James Nutting. Constable-Henry. Spear. School Supervisor-East, C. I. Spaulding. Clergymen-M. Kearney (Caribou), Meth.; B. A. Patten (Washbnrn), C. Bap. Justice-James Nutting. March 14, 1883, Quorum. Merchants-Morse & Place, general stores. Manufacturers-Morse & Place, long lumber, shingles; B. E. Blackstone, maple candy; James Nutting, maple syrup. P. of H.-Perham, No. 165, James Nutting, Master. 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/perhampl213gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb