Kennebec County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Belgrade 1883
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BELGRADE.
Ten miles N. N. W. of Augusta. On Me. Cent. Railroad, 68 miles from Portland.
Settled, 1774. Incorporated, 102d town Feb. 3, 1796. Previously, Washington
Plantation. Population—1790, 159; 1850, 1722; 1860, 1592; 1870, 1485, 1880,
1321. Valuation, 1860—Polls, 376; Estates, $341,044; 1870—Polls. 374; Estates,
$461,468; 1880—Polls, 341; Estates, $493,631.

  Postmasters-Wm. Y. Bartlett; Belgrade Mills, Henry W. Golder; North, Jos. Merrow.

  Selectmen—Chas. H. Wyman, G. W. Cottle, Isaac Weaver.

  Town Clerk—Jas. C. Mosher.

  Treasurer—L. W. Bachelder.

  Constables—Orrison Famham, F. E. Bnnker.

  School Supervisor—H. F. D. Wyman.


  Clergymen—William Ward, Jos. S. Cummings, Bap.; Mills, O. H. Stevens, Meth.;
A. H. Walker, Adv.; North, Gorham F. Weymouth, F. Bap.

  Physicians—Warren W. Springer, B. P. Neal, All.

  Dentist—Ward Safford.

  Justices—Thomas Eldred, March 7, 1877; George E. Minot, April 19, 1877; Henry
W. Golder, Nov. 6, 1878; G. H. Foster; A. E. Faught, May 24, 1877, Quorum: Rufus
K. Stuart, April 10, 1882; C. Marshall Weston, May 29, 1878, Trial; C. Marshall
Weston, Dedimus.

  Merchants—Abner Hammond. Eldred & Stuart, general stores; Mills, D. & H. W.
Golder, J. M. Chandler, general stores; North, Charles Richardson, Joseph
Merrow, general stores.

  Manufacturers—-E. Tillson, hoops; Frank E. Bunker, Isaac Pray, E. S. Bunker,
smiths; Chas. Safford, harnesses; William F. Landers, cooperage; John T.
Fifield, boots and shoes.

  Mills, D. & H. W. Golder, spools; Austin & Towle, excelsior; John F.
Spanlding, rakes; N. & H. Morrill, saw, shingle, and grist mill; M. C. Clifford,
smith. North, John Damren, saw mill; Spaulding Bros., scythe and axe boxes,
spade handles, excelsior and rakes; G. F. Weymouth, smith; Curtis Higgins,
cooperage.

  Asso'tns-Masons-Relief, Sat. before full moon. Mills-I. O. G. T.- Friday.
North-North Belgrade Reform Club-Saturday.

  Hotels-Railroad House, Leander Yeaton; Mills-Central House, Charles Austin.


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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