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Moosehead Lake Region Bibliography 

Compiled by Deborah (Pelletier) Tajmajer, Updated November 12, 2002

Books

  • Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of GreenvilleGreenvilleMe.: The Town, 1909- Current.

  • Bicentennial Booklet Committee. Moosehead Souvenir Booklet: a Collection of Articles. 1776, 1836, 1976.
    ChadbourneAva Harriet. Maine place names and the peopling of its towns: Piscataquis andAroostookCounties.FreeportMe.: Bond Wheelwright Co., 1957. 
  • Clark, Charles E., James S. Leamon, and Karen Bowden. Maine in the Early Republic: from Revolution to Statehood. HanoverN.H.: University Press of New England, 1988. 
  • Coe, Hattie B. Paddle drippings in the Moosehead Lake region. PortlandMaineMaine Central Railroad [1894]. 
  • Farrar, Charles Alden John. Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and VicinityBoston: Lee and Shepard, 1878. 
  • Hamilton, Nathan D. and Cynthia Arcadia. The Moosehead Lake Region. Images of America Series. New HampshireArcadia, 1995.
  • Hayward, John. The New England GazetteerMaryland: Heritage Books, 1997. [1839]
  • Hubbard, Lucius L. Hubbard's Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern MaineBoston: A. Williams, 1882; Cambridge: The author, 1889, 1893
  • ____________. Summer Vacations at Moosehead lake and Vicinity. A practical Guide-book  for Tourists: Describing Routes for the Canoeman over the Principal Waters of Northern Maine, with Hints to Campers, and Estimates of Expense for ToursBoston: A. Williams and the author, 1879. 
  • ___________. Woods and Lakes of Maine; a Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a birch-bark Canoe, to which are Added some Indian Place-names and Their Meanings, Now First Published. Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1884; 1971. 
  • LabonteYouville (Father).  St. Anthony's Register of Baptisms and Marriages. [1980?] Includes Greenville records before 1910.  Order information: Maine Catholic Parish Books. 
  • Lander, Donna and Catherine Skinner. A Brief History of GreenvilleMaine and Mountain View Farm. [1971?].
  • Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The war for American Independence In Maine. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts, 1993. 
  • LoringAmasa. History of Piscataquis CountyMaine, From its Earliest Settlement to 1880. PortlandMe., Hoyt, Fogg and Donham, 1880. Greenville Chapter online. 
  • Lowell, James Russell. Fireside Travels. BostonTicknor and Fields, 1864; New York: T. Y. Crowell & co. [1906]; New York: AMS Press, 1966. 
  • Maine Lakes Steamboat Album. CamdenMaine: Down East, 1976.
  • Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. 
  • Nutting, Wallace. Maine Beautiful. New York: Bonanza Books, 1925.
  • Old Maps of Piscataquis CountyMaine I 1882. MaineSaco Valley, 1989.
  • Parker, Everett L. Beyond Moosehead: A History of the Great North Woods of MaineGreenville: Moosehead Communications, 1996. (Self-published)
  • --------------- Beyond Moosehead II: The Story of the Great North Woods of Maine from Pre-History through the Lumbering Era. .Greenville, Maine: Moosehead Communication, 2001. (Self-published)
  • --------------. Moosehead Reflections. Greenville: Moosehead Communications, May 1996. (Self-published)
  • -------------. Beyond Moosehead II. The Story of the Great North Woods of Maine From Pre-History Through the lumbering Era, 2001. Greenville: Moosehead Communications, (Self-published)
  • Phillips, Marion G. The Log Chapel: The History of the Rockwood Community ChurchRcokwoodMaine. Greenville: Moosehead Communications, 1999.
  • Piscataquis County Historical Society, Dover, Me. Historical Collections of Piscataquis County, Maine, Consisting of Papers Read at Meetings of Piscataquis County Historical Society, Also The  North Eastern Boundary Controversy and the Aroostook War, with Documentary Matter Pertaining Thereto. Dover: Observer Press, 1910. 
  • Piscataquis County (Maine) Business and Residential Directory 1907NewtonMass.Newton  Journal, 1906. 
  • Sawyer, Eleanor Grace. Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900. CamdenMaine Penobscot Press, 1995. 
  • Sawtell, William R. A History of the Charles A. Dean Memorial HospitalGreenvilleMaine 1911-1991. GreenvilleMe.: Moosehead Graphics, 1992.
  • ---------------. Gary From Greenville: a Fastbreak From Heaven. MiloMaine: Paper Pusher, 1993.
  • -----------------. Glimpses of Greenville .Self Published Maine, 1995. 
  • Shirley United Methodist Church: History and Memories, 1905-1997. Moosehead: Communications Incorporated, August 1997. 
  • Sprague, John F. Piscataquis Biography and Fragments. Bangor: 1899; Higginson Book Co., 1997. 
  • Steele, Betty. ChesuncookOn My Mind: Recollections of historic and Remote Chesuncook Village. Greenville: Moosehead Communications, 2002. (Self-published)
  • Steele, Thomas Sedgwick. Paddle and Portage, from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook RiverMaineBoston, Estes & Lauriat, 1882. 
  • Surname Index Project and Maine Old Cemetery Association. Piscataquis County Cemeteries Located on Maine Township Road Maps. 1983. 
  • Thoreau, Henry D. The Maine Woods, 1891. (Many other versions available too.) His articles first appeared in "Ktaadn and the Maine Woods."  The Union MagazineNew York, 1848  and in "Chesuncook."Atlantic Monthly, 1858. "Chesuncook." "First Part" and "Conclusion" On-line at Cornell University
  • True, Emma. 100 Years on Moosehead Lake: History of Greenville. AugustaMaine, 1936. 
  • ----------. History of Greenville, 1836-1936. Augusta: Augusta Press, 1936. 
  • Williamson, Eleanor R. Juana D. PerleyMadalene F. Burnham. Aboriginally Yours: Chief Henry Red Eagle. GreenvilleMaine: Moosehead Communications, July 1997. 
  • Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Big-Little World of Doc Pritham. New York, 1971. 
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