Hancock County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Orland 1883
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ORLAND

Seventeen miles W. of Ellsworth. On Bangor and Castine, Blue Hill and Sedgwick
stage-lines. Granted to W. Dall, Nathaniel Snellings, Robert Treat and others in
Boston. First settler, Joseph Gross, from Fort Pownal,1764; the next, Ebenezer
Gross, from Boston in 1765: the next, Joseph Viles, from Milton, Mass., in 1766,
who built the first framed house in 1777, which was used for holding plantation
meetings, until the building of the first school-house in 1804. Zachariah Gross,
first male child born 1766. Large accession made to the settlement between 1767
and 1780, from Boston. First road laid out in 1771 by John Hancock and Samuel
Craig. First saw and grist mills built at lower falls by Calvin Turner, 1773.
First County road through the plantation laid out in 1793. Incorporated Feb. 12,
1800. Population-1850, 1579; 1860,1787; 1870, 1701; 1880, 1689. Valuation,
1860-Polls 374; Estates, $312,543; 1870-Polls, 407; Estates, $374,390;
1880-Polls, 435; Estates, $358,825.

  Postmasters-Geo. H. Condon; East, Mrs. Nancy Blaisdell.

  Selectmen-W. P. White, J. F. Soper, William Roberts.

  Town Clerk-James C. Saunders.

  Treasurer-Benjamin A. Keyes.

  Constables-Daniel G. Rich, D. P. Saunders, L. S. Keyes, Reuben H. Hutchings.

  School Supervisor-F. W. Gross.

  Clergyman-William Forsyth (Bucksport), Cong.

  Physician-Frank Perry, All.

  Justices-Frank Buck, Jan. 26, 1881; Oliver B. Trott, Jan. 29, 1878; F. W.
Gross, Jan. 22, 1879; J. S. Condon, July 11, 1877; Geo. I. Soper; Jan. 29, 1878,
Quorum: J. A. Buck, Dedimus.

  Merchants-Albert R. Buck, W. T. Emerson, J. S. Condon, Geo. H. Condon, general
stores; O. B. Trott, hardware; A. J. Jordan, apothecary; W. F. Buck, market.

  Manufacturers-Andrew Ginn, Fred. B. Gross, A. B. & A. W. Hutchins, Frederic
Leach, Joseph & Freeman Bray, John H. Marks, Geo. B. Hutchins, bricks; I. C.
Harriman, grist mill; Edward Buck, Thos. Mason, Dennis Swasey, lumber; John
Marks, Gilman Crane, Frank Wentworth, Geo. M. Dorr, Daniel French, Allard
Staples, smiths; Leander Page, cooper; A. P. Dorr, James C. Saunders, house
painters. East, George Mason, flour mill; Thomas F. Mason, saw and planing mill
and short lumber; Augustine Mason, wool carding; Frank Mason, Augustine Mason,
coopers; Samuel Mason, machinist.

  Asso'tns-Masons-Rising Sun, first Tuesday; P. of H.-Narramessic, first Thursday.


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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