Lincoln County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Southport 1883
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SOUTHPORT.

Fourteen miles S. of Wiscasset. On steamboat line from Bath, ten miles. Formerly
a part of Boothbay. Incorporated by name of Townsend, Feb. 12, 1842. Name
changed, 1830. Population-1850, 543; 1860, 708; 1870, 684; 1880, 679. Valuation,
1860-Polls, 143; Estates, $130,455; 1870-Polls, 165; Estates, $149,200;
1880-Polls, 178; Estates, $132,350.

  Postmasters-*Martin E. Beale; West, Cyrus Pierce; Squirrel Island, C. E.
Kendrick (open only in summer).

  Selectmen-Sumner Orne, Charles J. Martin (West), Thos. Cameron.

  Town Clerk-Zina Orne.

  Treasurer-West, Ephraim Pinkham.

  Constable-West, James F. Band.

  Collector-W. S. Pierce.

  School Committee-Cyrus C. Thompson; West, James F. Rand, J. R. Baker.

  Clergyman-West, J. C. Lamb, Meth.

  Justices-Freeman Grover, February 6, 1878; Wm. T. Maddocks, Feb. 25, 1880,
Quorum; Thomas Cameron, April 24, 1879, Trial.

  Merchants-F. Orne, Martin E. Beale, dry goods and groceries; F. Orne, William
E. Maddocks, fish: M. E. Beale, ice, wholesale and retail; West, Cyrus Pierce,
Wm. T. Maddocks, general stores.

  Manufacturers-A. O. & E. L. Decker, boats and fish leads.

  Inspectors of Fish-F. Orne, Wm. E. Maddocks.

  I. O. G. T.-Old War Horse, Wed.

  Hotels-Moose Island-Samoset Bouse, R. W. Haynes; Capital Island-Sidney Hotel.
Summer Boarding Mouses-A. W. Gray, William Bare, Squirrel Island-Chase
House-Mrs. H. S. Noble.


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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