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

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STAN DISH.

Springvale, a manufacturing village and post-office in San-
ford, York County.

Spruce Head, a post-office in Knox County.

Squirrel Island, an island and summer resort, with post
office,in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County.

Staceyville Plantation lies on the eastern line of Pen-
obscot County, 85 miles N. N. E. of Bangor, on the Aroostook road.
It has Patten on the north, and Sherman in Aroostook County on the
east. Formerly it was township No. 3 of Range 6, hut was organized
under its present name in 1860. The nearest railroad station is that
of the European and North American Railway at Mattawamkeag, with
which it is connected by stage-line. The surface of the town is not
greatly varied; Horse Hill being the highest eminence. The rock is
slate, and the soil a rich black loam. All the trees of the region flourish
here. The crops chiefly cultivated are wheat, oats and potatoes.

The plantation has three schoolhouses, valued at $250. The valua-
tion in 1880 was $20,362. The rate of taxation was l£ per cent. The
population in 1870 was 138. In 1880 it w'as 184.

Standisll is situated on the south-west side of Lake Sebago
and is tbe most south-westerly part of Cumberland County. It con-
tains territory, including an island and part of Lake Sebago, equal to
eight miles square. Standish is bound on the north hy Lake Sebago,
south-east by Windham and Gorham, south hy Buxton aud Hollis, and
west by Limington. The Saco River separates it from the towns of
York County on the west. At the north-eastern extremity of the
town called Standish “ Neck,” is the Basin of Lake Sebago, from which
issues the Presumpscot River. The Portland and Ogdensburg railway
passes through the town along the southern extremity of the lake.
The stations are Sebago Lake, Richville and Steep Falls. Much of the
land is sandy plains, formerly covered with pines; yet there is con-
siderable good farming land. * The highest eminence is Oak Hill. The
principal bodies of water in the town are Great and Little Watchig,
Bonny Eagle, and Rich’s Mill Pond. The chief business centres are
Standish Corner, Steep Falls, and tbe adjoining villages of South
Standish and Bonny Eagle Island. Lesser points are Wescott Falls,
at the Basin, and SebagoLake, which is a railway station and a point of
departure for the lake steamers and other boats. The manufactures
are lumber, headings, shooks and staves, carriages, clothing, flour and
meal, ice, plaster, packing-boxes, etc ; each of the villages having one
or more mills or factories for producing these articles.

The township which is now Standish was granted in 1750 to Capts.
Humphrey Hobbs and Moses Pearson and their companies for services
in the siege of Louisburg. The whole number of grantees was to be
120, sixty of whom were to settle in distinct families within three years,
and sixty more within seven years. They were to give bonds to the
treasurer of tbe province that each man should build a house sixteen
feet by eighteen, with a seven foot shed, and clear -up five acres of
land. The settlement commenced in 1760. Rev. John Thompson, the
first minister, was ordained in 1768.