Kennebec County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Chelsea 1883
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CHELSEA.

Five miles S.E. of Augusta. Inc. Aug. 17, 1850. Formerly a part of Hallowell.
United States Military Asylum located here. Population-1860, 1024; 1870, 1238;
1880, 1537. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 200; Estates, $181,550; 1870-Polls, 177;
Estates, $184,980; 1880-Polls, 179; Estates, $206,738.

  Postmasters-Stephen Cobb; Togus, Andrew J. Smith.

  Selectmen-Wm. T. Searls, Albert N. Douglass, James E. Blanchard.

  Town Clerk-Frank E. Cobb.

  Treasurer and Collector--Wm. T. Searls.

  Constables-W. T. Searls, Frank E. Cobb, Freeman Y. Barker; Hallowell P. O., A.
D. Libby.

  School Supervisor-Stephen Cobb.

  Clergyman-E. S. Gahan (Weeks Mills P. O.), Meth.

  Justices-William T. Searls, Dec. 8, 1876; Stephen Cobb, John Kirk, Nov. 30,
1881, Quorum;  Stephen Cobb, Nov. 7,1877, Trial.

  Merchants-Grange Store, Robert McHay, general stores.

  Manufacturers-Uriah Briery, shoemaker; James L. Baker, shingle and saw mill;
Thos. Winter, smith; Brick-yard, saw-mill, and shoe shop owned and-operated by
"Soldiers'Home;" Hallowell P. O., Geo. A. Yeaton, Noah G. & Samuel Packard,
marble and granite.

  Asso'tns-S. of T.-Soldiers, Fri. Soldiers' Home G. A. R - Cutler Post, No. 48.
  P. of H.-Chelsea, No. 215, F. E. Cobb, Master.


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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