Greenville, Maine Genealogy -- USGENWEB Project

 

Old Time Names

       Settled by Nathaniel Haskell in 1824, and organized as Haskell Plantation in 1831. Incorporated in 1836. North part of WILSON on, annexed in 1848. A portion set off to form BEAVER COVE Plantation in 1975.       

“First Settlement. In the summer of 1824, Nathaniel Haskell and Oliver Young cut down ten acres of trees, and John Smith, Mr. Haskell’s son-in-law, six acres on an adjoining lot. . . . By this time, Cowan, Littlefield and others began to lumber the lake, and to have supplies hauled in by sledding over this road. . . . .  In the spring of 1827, he moved Mrs. Waldron, a widowed daughter, and two children, the first family that settled in the township. . . . For more than a year afterward, she did not see the face of another woman. She eventually married Oliver Young, and still resides in Greenville, now, 1880, eighty-four years of age. . . . Mr. Carling eventually settled on it, and died there recently. William Cummings was the next to move in a family, and Isaac Sawyer, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Tufts were the next comers. A few years later, Samuel Cole came, in 1831 Edmund Scammon moved in, and John Gerrish soon after.”

“In 1829, Messrs. Varney, two brothers from Windham, built a saw-mill on the Wilson Stream, so that boards and sawed lumber became obtainable, and in 1830, Mr. Haskell also put in a small grist-mill.” *

 

 * Click here to read the complete Chapter about Greenville up to 1880 written by  Loring, Amasa. History of Piscataquis County, Maine, from its Earliest Settlement to 1880. Portland, Me., Hoyt, Fogg and Donham, 1880. (Use the BACK button to return to this page)

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Surname Research: These links will take you outside the Greenville, Maine Genealogy website. You may want to bookmark this page. There are more surname research on the Greenville Family Stories page.

 

Andrews

Darling

Eagle

Hamilton

Meservey

Pelletier

Rodrigue

Scammon

Sawyer

Shaw

Tremblay

Warman

Young

 

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Village/Place Names

See the Database, Lookup, Narrative page for some map links. If you know about a Greenville area surname or a place link that should be added, please let me know.

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