Oxford County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Franklin Plantation 1883
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FRANKLIN PLANTATION.

Fourteen miles N. of Paris. Formerly No. 2. Composed of Buxton, Milton Academy,
and Bartlett grants. First clearing made in 1816. First settlement, 1820;
general settlement, 1830. Early settlers were from Sumner, Wayne, and Livermore.
Plantation organized in 1841. Population-1870, 178; 1880, 159. Valuation,
1870-Polls, 51; Estates, $35,487; 1880-Polls, 42; Estates, $26,110.

Nearest Post-office-Dickvale.

  Assessors-Winthrop Mathews, Cyrus F. Gordon, Wm. H. Mathews.

  Clerk-Winthrop Mathews.

  Treasurer-Charles Bisbee (West Peru P. O.)

  Constable and Collector-Charles H. Farnum.

  School Committee--P. T. Thornton, J. Q. Allen, Erastus I. Abbott.

  Clergyman-A. A. C. Abbott, Advent.

  Mannfacturers-Erastus Abbott, boards, shingles and laths; E. & E. F. Childs,
Ira Wing, baskets; Gold and silver mines, C. T. Wyman, Erastus Abbott; T. N.
Washburn, carpenter and wheelwright; Patrick Thornton, smith.

  News Agent and Correspondent-T. H. Thornton.


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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