Hancock County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Penobscot 1883
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PENOBSCOT.

Twenty-two miles S. W. of Ellsworth. On Bucksport and Deer Isle stage-line.
Formerly embraced Castine and a large part of Brooksville. Trading house
established in 1626 by Plymouth Colony, which was abandoned in a few years.
D'Aulney, a Frenchman, established himself here in 1640. In 1665 Baron De Castin
came to the place, and in 1667 married a daughter of Madocawando, chief of the
Tarratines. First permanent settlement by English was made in spring of 1760.
Plantation name Majorbigwaduce. Incorporated Feb. 23, 1787, and named from the
Indian Penops (Rocky), and auke (place). Lat. 44° 31', lon. 68° 45'. Castine set
off Feb. 10, 1796. Population-1860,1556; 1860, 1557; 1870, 1418; 1880, 1341.
Valuation, 1860-Polls, 326; Estates, $193,375; 1870-Polls, 329; Estates,
$227,356; 1880-Polls, 335; Estates, $215,437.

  Postmasters-Sylvia Perkins; North, Phebe Osgood; South, Edward White; West,
Hamilton J. Wood.

  Selectmen-Joseph M. Hutchings, J. B. Snowman, John P. Haney.

  Town Clerk-*Albert E. Varnum.

  Treasurer and Collector-Gilbert Littlefield.

  Constables-Obed Leach, John L. Wardwell, James Grindle.

  School Supervisor-John H. Littlefield.

  Clergymen-S. M. Dunton, Meth.; L. S. Tripp (Surry), Bap.; West, V. P.
Wardwell, Meth.; North, S. M. Dunton, Meth.; South, S. M. Dunton, Meth.

  Physician-A. E. Sprague, Hom.

  Justices-Horace Perkins, Feb. 11, 1880; Albert E. Varnum, Feb. 28, 1883,
Quorum: E. R. Bowden, Feb. 28, 1883, Trial.

  Merchants-Josiah Varnum, Horace Perkins, Bowden & Grindle, S. N. Mitchell, W.
N. Perkins, general stores; Mrs. Abbie Condon, millinery. North, Phebe Osgood,
general stores. West, Hutchings Brothers, general stores.

  Manufacturers-Isaac B. Goodwin, John D. Gray, boots and shoes; Jas. Smith,
Moses Littlefield, John L. Wardwell, Benj. Cushman, William Sellers, W. C.
Littlefield, Otis Leach, Wilbur Wardwell, Edward Wilson, fish barrels; David
Grindle, White, Grindle & Co., staves: W. C. Hutchins & Sons, Bowden & Grindle,
David Grindle, Wardwell, Leach & Co., Leach, Snowman & Co., bricks: S. Bowden,
Thomas Mitchell, smiths; Henry P. Norris, harnesses; R. B. Wentworth, carriages
and coffins; Nelson Littlefield, carriages; J. W. Bridges, Dudley C. Bridges,
Everett Snow, J. R. Sellers, painters; Grindle, Wight & Varnum, saw mill; David
Grindle, grist mill. North, Geo. Lowell, smith. South, J. E. Grindle, lime casks.

  Mining Company-Hercules Silver Mining Co.-Dustin Lancey, Boston, president;
Thomas O. Johnson, Kittery, secretary.

  Asso'tns-Masons-Rising Star, Wed.; Penobscot Farmer's Club, N. F. Norton,
pres., J. B. Wilson, sec, Thursday; P. of H.-Penobscot, No. 240, Tues.; North,
I. O. G. T.-Rechab, 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.


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