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
This town was incorporated March 3, 1855; being named in honor of Hon. Anson P. Morrill, then governor of the State. The first set- tlements were made by James Weymouth, Benjamin Smith, Joseph Coming and Nathaniel Cushman, in 1801 and 1802. They purchased their lands of General Knox, proprietor under the Waldo Patent.
The climate of this town is regarded as quite healthful. There are four inhabitants past eighty years of age, and four between seventy and eighty. The Grange has a good building here, which is used as a town- hall. There is a Methodist society in the town, and a Union meeting- house at the village. The town has five public schoolhouses. The entire school property is valued at $2,500. The valuation of estates in 1870 was $133,099. In 1880 it was $122,098. The rate of taxation in the latter was for money tax, 42 mills on the dollar. The population in 1870 was 523. In 1880 it was 494.
Morrills Corner, a village and railroad station in Deer- ing, Cumberland County.
Morrisons Corner, a small village in Clinton, Ken- nebec County.
Moscow, in Somerset County, is situated on the eastern bank of Kennebec River, 25 miles N.N.W. of Skowhegan, on the stage-line to the Forks of the Kennebec. It is bounded on the north by Caratunk, east by Mayfield, south by Bingham and west by Pleasant Ridge Plantation. It is separated from the last by tbe river. The surface is very hilly. Dresser Hill is the most extensive elevation in horizontal area; Baker Mountain is probably the highest, and Bab- bitt Ridge is next to these. Chase, Little Chase and Minx ponds lie in the northern part. Others are found at the south-east corner, and along near the river are several smaller. Austin Stream is the princi- pal water course, and into it discharge Chase and Gulf streams, Minx and other brooks. Near the eastern line of the town are Austin Falls, on the stream of that name, having a descent of 100 feet in half a mile. On these were formerly saw, shingle, clapboard and planing mills, which were burnt a few years since. Other powers and mills are Temples Mills and Temples Wagon Works, on a brook empty- ing into the Kennebec River; Bassetts Shingle Mill, on the east branch of Chase Stream ; Chase Mill on the same stream, near the centre of the town ; Great Falls, below, where the stream descends 30 feet; and on Carneys Brook is Carneys saw-mill. In all there are 19 available powers. The rock in general through the town is a hard slate, having in many places, veins of quartz yielding small quantities of gold. Three-fourths of tbe territory is still covered with heavy forest. The soil is good, yielding well in grain and other staple pro- ducts of the region. Bingham is a post-ofiice for the town.
This township was a part of Binghams Kennebec Purchase. Ac- cording to Williamson, it was settled as early as 1773. The land was surveyed and lotted in 1812, at which time the inhabitants petitioned for incorporation under the name of Northfield. The plantation became somewhat known as Bakerstown, from the number of persons of the name of Baker among the inhabitants, though the original Bakerstown
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