Franklin County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Rangeley 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 July 8, 2007, 8:12 pm RANGELEY. Forty miles N. W. of Farmington. Terminus of stage-line from Phillips, twenty miles. On Capt. F C. Hewey's steamboat line to all points of Rangeley Lake. Also on Capt. F. C. Barker's steamboat line to all points of the Mooselucmaguntic Lake. Incorporated March 8, 1855. Area, 25,792 acres. Population-1860, 238; 1870, 313; 1880, 563. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 65; Estates, $43,579; 1870-Polls, 74; Estates, $75,239; 1880- Polls, 131; Estates, $103,241. Postmaster-John A. Burke; Indian Rock, Isaac N. Packard; Haynes' Landing. C. T. Richardson. Selectmen-John R. Toothaker, Abraham Ross, John F. Herrick. Town Clerk-John Haley. Treasurer-Eben Rowe. Constable-Samuel A. Ross. School Committee-J. A. Proctor, E. A. Rogers, Hiram E. Hinkley. Clergymen-R. A. Proctor, F. Bap.; vacant, Cong. Physician-S. A. Ross, Botanic. Justices-Luther Nile, Feb. 6, 1878; Samuel A. Ross, Mar. 9, 1882, Quorum: John Haley, Dedimus: *Johh Haley, May 24, 1877, Trial. Merchants-Burke & Rogers, Young & Co., general stores; J. F. Oakes, meat; Rose Hewey, millinery. Manufacturers - Luther Tebbetts, wheelwright and boat-builder; Mitchell & Rowe, lumber; S. B. Tufts, boat-builder; L. W. Loomis, carpenter; L. A. Smith, smith; Benjamin M. Kenerson, house joiner. Hotels-Rangely Lake House, J. A. Burke; Oqruossoc House, Edward Grant; Mountain View House, H. T. Kimball; Haines' Landing House, C. T. Richardson. I. O. G. T.-Oquossoc. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/franklin/directories/business/1883/rangeley268gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb