1882 History of Penobscot County, Maine - Garland, Maine: Organization

"Organization" from the Garland Section of the 1882 History of Penobscot County, Maine

The original or plantation name of this town, as already stated, was Lincolntown, so called from the Hon. Levi Lincoln, one of the principal men among the co-proprietors.

On the 16th day of February, 1811 -- the same day that Exeter and Charleston, in this county, were erected -- Garland was incorporated as the one hundred and eighty-second town in the District, the name being changed in honor of the pioneer settler.

It is a fact of some interest that Eddington, Corinth, and Carmel -- then of Hancock, but now of this county -- were created the same year; and that, of the nine towns incorporated in the District during 1811, two-thirds now belong to Penobscot County. It seems to have been a good year for municipal organization in the south of this county.

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