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In 1881
cartographer/surveyor George N. Colby, assisted by J.H.
Stuart and others, published the first atlas of
Hancock County towns, villages, plantations and
timber lots, binding together 87 individually engraved
maps into one convenient volume. |
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Through the
collaborative
efforts of the Trescott, Maine Historical Society and
Moon River Press a new edition, carefully reprinted from
the original, has just been released and is available
for sale as a fund raiser at many local Hancock
County libraries and historical societies, or directly
from the publisher. |
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This atlas, an
exact copy of the 1881 edition, is reproduced in an
easy-to-handle 11” x 13 ˝" format, digitally imaged on
heavy, acid-free archival-quality paper. The maps
identify every property owner by name, and show the
precise locations of homesteads, businesses, roads,
schools, churches, mills and cemeteries in those
plantations, towns and villages that were inhabited by
1880. The names on each of the maps, no
matter how small they appeared in the original, are
reproduced in this edition with state-of-the-art
clarity. |
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Added to the new atlas, by
utilizing pages that were left blank in the original,
is the complete 1790 Federal Census for Hancock County
(first U.S. Census). |
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