Knox County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Thomaston 1883
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THOMASTON.

Three miles S. W. of Rockland. On Knox and Lincoln Railroad. First known as a
trading post as early as 1630. Settlement commenced about 1719, but, on account
of the depredations of the Indians, nothing of a permanent character seems to
have been effected until the arrival of Mason Wheaton, in 1763. Originally
belonged to the Waldo Patent, and embraced, until 1848, Rockland and South
Thomaston. Incorporated March 20, 1777. Population-1790, 799; 1800, 402; 1810,
2100; 1820, 2651; 1830, 4231; 1840, 2627; 1850, 2723; 1860, 3620; 1870, 3092;
1880, 3017. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 656; Estates, $2,053,573; 1870-Polls, 620;
Estates, $1,854,110; 1880-Polls, 723; Estates, $2,202,211.

  Postmaster-Henry A. Willis.

  Selectmen-Wm. H. Hatch, T. S. Andrews, Thomas Russell.

  Assessors-John C. Levensaler, C. Prince, D. P. Rose.

  Town Clerk-Thomas A. Carr.

  Treasurer-William C. Burgess.

  Constables-W. J. Bunker, J. W. Peabody, W. H. Hatch.

  School Supervisor-Horace O'Brien.

  Clergymen-Supplies, Cong.; vacant, 1st, G. P. Mathews, 2d, Bap.; S. L.
Hanscom, Meth.; Wm. Walker, Epis.; E. Peterson (Rockland) Cath.

  Physicians-H. C. Levensaler, J. B. Walker, C. T. Chase, All.; A. F. Piper,
Hom.; W. A. Stacy, Ecl.


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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