Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Silver Ridge 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, 5:54 pm SILVER RIDGE PLANTATION. Half township, forty miles S. W. of Houlton, via Sherman. Fifteen miles N. W. of European and North American Railway at Kingman. Formerly the east half of No. 2, R. 5. Organized a plantation, July 20, 1863. First settled 1858. Population-1874, 184; 1880, 229. Valuation, 1880-Polls, 63; Estates, $16,662. Postmaster-Henry C. Spooner. Assessors-Jesse S. Smith, Nelson Woodbury, Francis Smith. Clerk-Joseph T. Getchell. Treasurer-Thomas Clark. Constable and Collector-Charles H. Hayden. School Supervisor-T. M. Kneeland. Clergyman-Vacant, Cong.; L. W. Kilgore (Moro), Meth. Justice-Jesse S. Smith, Apr, 24, 1879, Trial; Jesse S. Smith, Dedimus. Blacksmith-Benjamin Collins. I. O. G. T.-Advance Guard, Saturday. 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/silverri217gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb