Penobscot County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Carmel 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com October 13, 2007, 11:30 pm CARMEL. Fourteen miles W. of Bangor. On Maine Central Railroad. Incorporated June 21, 1811; previous to which, it was known as Plantation No. 3, second Range. Population-1850, 1225; 1860, 1273; 1870, 1348; 1880, 1220; Valuation, 1860-Polls, 300: Estates, $188,235; 1870-Polls, 336; Estates, $260,118; 1880-Polls, 294; Estates, $291,073. Postmasters-C. K. Johnson; North, Samuel Raines. Selectmen-F. A. Simpson, Hiram Ruggles, B. A. Robinson. Town Clerk-F. M. Simpson. Treasurer-Benjamin Robinson. Collector-R. A. Robinson. Constable-Paul Ruggles. School Committee -W. A. Swan, John R. Chase, Frank Robinson. Clergymen-B. D. Small, Bap.; Elias Dodge, supplies, Meth.; James Blagden, F. Bap., Union Church. Physicians-John B. Benjamin, W. A. Otis, All.; John D. Jones, Bot. Justices-Hiram Ruggles, Oct. 26, 1876; F. M. Simpson, April 24, 1878; F. A. Simpson. Dec. 1, 1881, Trial. Merchants-C. K. Johnson, D. C. Johnson, F. M. Simpson, Samuel Raines, general stores. Manufacturers - B. Robinson. carder, weaver, and cloth-dresser; J. P. Luce, G. N. Miller, smiths; Benjamin J. Murch, boots and shoes; I. S. Burgess, furniture; Elisha Brown, D. R. Harrington, butchers; A. L. Garot, harnesses; W. Corliss, carriages; W. K. Lancy, shingles and lumber. Harrington Silver Mining Company-E. C. Nichols, Bangor, president; E M. Hersey Bangor, secretary; Wm. H. Darling, supt. Associations-Masons-Benevolent, Wed. week of full moon. I. O. G. T.-Sowadabscook, Fri. S. of T.-St. Pauls. Sat. P. of H.-Golden Harvest, No. 33, James M. Robinson, Master, Wed. Hotel-Edward Murphy. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/penobscot/directories/business/1883/carmel430gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb