Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Portage Lake 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, 5:38 pm PORTAGE LAKE PLANTATION. Seventy-five miles N. N. W. of Houlton, via Ashland. On stage-line from Ashland to Fort Kent. Formerly Township No. 13, R. 6. Organized 1872. Named from the lake and its "carry". Population-1870, 124; 1880, 132. Valuation, 1880-Polls, 29; Estates. $23,018. Assessors-Sherburn Bragdon, Jarvis Hayward, Frederick Balstridge. Clerk and Treasurer-Orren L. Stevens. School Committee-Jarvis Hayward, Sherburn Bragdon. Clergyman-H. Jones (Ashland), Epis. 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/portagel214gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb