Hinkley Township or Grand Lake Stream Plantation
A GEM AMONG TOWN HISTORIES 
Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Volume 9, No. 1
1921
Published by John Francis Sprague
Dover, Maine
page 43-44
(sj9p43awas.txt)

Minnie Atkinson of Newburyport, Mass., is the author of a 
neatly bound book of 122 pages and twelve illustrations, entitled
"Hinckley Township or Grand Lake Stream Plantation," which
is a real gem.   Already we believe between eight and nine hundred
Maine Town Histories have been published.  So far as we know
this is the second one of a Maine plantation that has ever been
printed, the first one having been the historical sketch of Jackman 
and the Moose River Plantation which appeared in the Journal, Vol. 3,
No. 2.

Any true story of the development of a town from its pioneer
days to its time of maturity and prosperity as a municipality, is a
bit of history of the utmost value and interest to the student of the
history and growth of a commonwealth; always a fascinating tale
of human endeavor and ultimate achievement.

We recall many such items of Maine history which are classics,
such as "Old Hallowell" by Emma Huntington Nason, "An Old 
River Town" -- a history of Winterport -- by Ada Douglas Little-
field, etc.  None of these superior literary productions has sur-
passed and but few equal Miss Atkinson's book.  She commences
with much of importance relative to the Indians in the Passama-
quoddy region prior to and during the Revolution., and when Colonel 
John Allen, under General Washington, was the superintendent of 
all the Indian Tribes in eastern Maine, and follows the develop-
ment of this plantation full of interesting, fascinating and impor-
tant historical details to the present day.  After a careful perusal 
of this book we do not hesitate in heartily recommending it to our
readers.

(c) 1998
Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs>  
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