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
128 GAZETTEER OF MAINE.
once grew here in large quantities, but fire and the lumbermans axe have swept it mostly away. Nichols Pond, 3 miles long by 2 wide, is situated at the southern angle of the town. On the outlet are seven of the eighteen water-powers in the town, the other eleven being on Great Works Stream emptying into Penobscot in the northern part of }
the town. On these powers are one lumber, shingle and lath mill, one beading, stave aud broom-handle mill, and five shingle-rnills. On the Penobscot just above and below the town, are also numerous mills.
By a bridge near its north line, Bradley has access to the European and North American Railway, on the western side of the river.
Bradley was incorporated in 1834. The Free Baptists have a church iu town, but the churches in Orono and Oldtown are so near that the worshippers resort thither largely. There are four public schoolhouses, the entire school property being estimated at $1,000.
The valuation of estates in 1870 was $158,166. In 1880 it was $118,998.
The population in 1870 was 866. In 1880 it was 829
Branch Mills, a post-office in China, Kennebec County.
Bremen is situated a little south of the centre of Lincoln County, on the western side of Muscongus Bay. On the north is Waldoboro, on the west Damariscotta, and on the west and south, the town of Bristol. Bremen is 5 miles in length by 3 in breadth. Pem- aquid and Biscay ponds lie on its western line, separating it from Damariscotta. Broad Bay in the north-east and Greenland Cove on the south-east are the harbors; and at the heads of these are the principal settlements. Muscongus Pond, in the southern part, and McCurdys, in the western part of the town, are the principal sheets of water.
The surface of the town is uneven. Granite is the rock that appears in view. The soil is clay and sandy loam. The principal crop is potatoes. On the outlet of Muscongus Pond is a saw, shingle and grist mill. There are two porgy-oil factories. The occupation of the inhabitants is principally fishing and farming. Bremen is 16 miles east of Wiscasset. The nearest railroad stations are at Waldoboro and Damariscotta.
The territory of Bremen originally belonged to the Pemaquid Patent.
It was once a part of Bristol, but was set off and incorporated in 1828.
William Hilton, from Plymouth, Mass., was the first settler, having moved in with his family, consisting of four sons and three daughters, in 1735. He was, however, soon driven away by the Indians ; but at the close of the war in 1745, he returned. Being an heir by marriage of the Brown claim,1 he took possession of a lot on that claim ; and on this he resided until the last Indian war broke out (1754), when he removed his. family to the block-house at Muscongus Harbor. Though this was 5 miles from his home, he still continued his labors upon the farm. In May, 1755, while he and his three sons,
William, Richard and John, were landing from a boat, they were fired upon by the Indians, who were in ambush. William was killed out- right, the father and Richard were severely w'ounded, the first
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John Brown, who settled at New Harbor, in Bristol, bought, in 1625, of the Indian sagamore, Samoset, for fifty skins, a tract of land between Broad Bay and Damariscotta River, extending 25 miles iiito the country. {See Annals of Warren, p. 17.
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