Cumberland County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Pownal 1883
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POWNAL.

Seventeen miles N. N. B. of Portland. On Hascall's stage-line from N.Yarmouth
depot, on Grand Trunk Railroad, to Durham. Formerly part of Freeport.
Incorporated 171st town, March 3, 1808. Population-1850, 1072; 1860,1053;
1870,981; 1880,874. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 264; Estates, $345,889; 1870-Polls,
264; Estates, $378,355; 1880-Polls, 249; Estates, $303,486.

  Postmasters-True Warren; West, D. J. Lawrence; North, Jas.Rice.

  Selectmen-Seth D. Stetson, Arthur T. Noyes, J. K. Morse.

  Town Clerk-Seth D. Stetson.

  Treasurer-John T. Lawrence.

  Collector and Constable-S. Latham.

  Constable-Elias Tuttle.

  School Committee-John T. Lawrence, J. N. Plaisted, Harland Libby.

  Clergymen-Richard Wickett, Cong.; vacant, F. Bap.; North, A. C. Trafton, Meth.

  Physician-J. N. Plaisted, All.

  Justices-I. S. Brown, Feb. 6, 1878, Quorum: Moses Plummer, Jan. 29, 1878, Trial.

  Auctioneer-I. S. Brown.

  Merchants-Warren & Noyes; West, George A. Miller; North, L. O. Morse, Edward
Skillin; South, Ebenezer Cleaves, general stores.

  Manufacturers-True Warren, H. M. Warren, I. T. McIntire, A. S. Marston, boots
and shoes; L. C. True, smith; Ezra B. Cole, carriages; North, C. C. Covell, A.
Sawyer, harnesses; Mark Fickett, smith; Enoch Shaw, lumber; West, E. D. Harris,
carriages; R. Skillin, smith; East, Fred C. Goddard, carriages and smith.

  Asso'tns-I. O. G. T.-Triumph, Saturday. P. of H.-Granite, No. 14, N. Dyer,
Master, Wed.


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.


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