Gazetteer of the State of Maine With Numerous Illustrations, by Geo. J. Varney

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY B. B. RUSSELL, 57 CORNHILL. 1882. Public domain image from

8    PREFACE.

and Vicinity,” and his pleasing and useful pamphlet on Aroostook.
Acknowledgments are due to the heads of departments in the State
government for documents; and for maps, atlases, sketches of town
and county history to Joseph Williamson, Esq., of Belfast; Rev. H. O.
Thayer, of Woolwich; andEsqrs. George A. Emery, of Saco; Turner
.Buswell, of Solon; Rev. Amasa Loring, Yarmouth; W. S. Gilman, TIoul-
ton; H. C. Goodenew, of Bangor; Geo. H. Watkins, of Paris; J. E.
Moore, of Thomaston; Dr. J. F. Pratt, of Chelsea, Mass., and numer-
ous others,—personal friends, or public spirited persons.

All the towns and every plantation given in the report of the Valu-
ation Commissioners for 1880, as having an organization, together with
the counties, noted mountains, rivers, lakes and bays, and all the post-
offices given in the United States Postal Register up to January 1st,
1881, are to be found under their special headings. It is hoped that
articles in the first part of the volume relating to the State in general
will also be found useful.

Boston, Julyl, 1881.