Hancock County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Cranberry Isles 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 14, 2007, 5:45 pm

             CRANBERRY ISLES. 

Thirty miles S. of Ellsworth. Three miles from steamboat landing at S. W.
Harbor. Formerly a part of Mt. Desert. Incorporated, March 16, 1830.
Population-1850, 283; 1860, 347; 1870, 350; 1880, 343. Valuation, 1860-Polls,
73; Estates, $53,710; 1870-Polls, 86; Estates, $61,514; 1880-Polls, 98; Estates,
$52,063.

  Postmaster-J. S. Spurring.

  Selectmen-Wm. P. Preble, John Gilley, George W. Bulger.

  Town Clerk-Frank G. Spurling.

  Treasurer-Wm. E. Hadlock.

  Collector-John Gilley.

  Constables-Samuel C. Stover, Franklin Stanley.

  School Committee--William E. Hadlock, John Gilley, Frank G. Spurling.

  Clergyman-J. S. Allen, Meth.

  Notaries-*W. P. Preble.

  Justices-William P. Preble, Nov. 26, 1880, Quorum: Wm. E. Hadlock, Dedimus.

  Merchants-Leonard Holmes, Joseph S. Spurling, dry goods and groceries; W. E. &
G. Hadlock, Enoch B. Stanley, fish and fishing outfits (wholesale), &c.

  Manufacturers-E. R. Richardson, E. Spurling, boats; Henry Fernald, smith.

  Auctioneer-W. P. Preble.

  Life Saving Station.

  Hotel-Preble House, W. P. Preble.


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/hancock/directories/business/1883/cranberr295gms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb