Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine | Maine Genealogy. Map Data Map data ©2014 Google Map Satellite County Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1799) Incorporated 1802 from part of Winslow Incorporated as a City Previous Designations Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Kingsfield Boundary Changes Parts of Dearborn (incorporated in 1812 from West Pond Plantation) were annexed in 1815, 1822, and 1826, and a remnant of that town, Dearborn Plantation, was annexed in 1843 Land was set off in 1873 to form West Waterville (now Oakland) Villages, Locations and Settlements Waterville Adjacent Towns and Townships Clinton, Oakland, Sidney, Winslow Maps Historical USGS Maps of Waterville, Maine Maps of Waterville and Hallowell, 1885 City of Waterville, Kennebec Co. (1894) Cemeteries St.
Halde Cemetery Newspapers Morning Sentinel Obituary Collection: The Morning Sentinel [Ancestry.com] Miscellaneous Resources Waterville Municipal Officers, 1771-1908 Military Records World War I Soldiers Index: Waterville General Resources Official Website: City of Waterville. Waterville Maine Genealogy. Maine Memory Network: Exhibits Archive. Maine Memory Network - From French Canadians to Franco-Americans. Images from Franco-American Collection It was meant to be temporary. Once they had earned enough money, they planned to go home to their families in Quebec. But for various reasons, the French Canadians who immigrated to Maine after 1860 rarely made enough money working in the textile mills to return to Quebec or New Brunswick. Instead they put down roots, invited their families to join them, and made new lives in the United States. The majority of these first-generation immigrants continued to think of themselves as Canadians, even after decades in their new country.
But what about their descendants – their children grandchildren, and great-grandchildren? Franco-Americans are exceptional among immigrant groups in that they retained their distinct cultural identity for a long period of time. The earliest Franco immigrants arrived in Lewiston to find that the promises of steady work and boundless opportunity were greatly exaggerated. But the pressure was not just from the outside. The Maine Memory Network, Maine's online museum, a project of the Maine Historical Society. Maine Historical Society: The Research Library. Since 1822, Maine Historical Society has been collecting materials about Maine. Featuring books, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, photographs and ephemera, the Library collections are used by historians, writers, educators, students and genealogists. Visiting the Library is truly a unique experience where you can see one–of–a–kind material about Maine's history and people.
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The Lewiston Daily Sun - Google News Archive Search. Ivers waterville. Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search. Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search. Our Acadian, French Canadian, and Maine Ancestors : Our Acadian, French-Canadian, and Maine Ancestors. The History of Waterville, Maine. EVENTS IN WATERVILLE HISTORY Revised by A2Z Computing Services Evidence of prehistoric man does not exist in Waterville. In fact, following the Indian wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, there is little evidence of any human life in Waterville.
Then in 1754, the first permanent white settlement of the area was established. It centered around General John Winslow’s Fort Halifax, where the Sebasticook joins the Kennebec below the Ticonic Falls. 11 families settled in the area, but as word spread that the area under the protection of the Fort was safe from attack, other settlers came. Within ten years there were one hundred settlers on both sides of the Kennebec.
Over the next 86 years the Town of Waterville grew and prospered. In 1809 the Waterville Fire Department was established. In 1814 The largest ship built in Waterville, the Francis and Sarah (290 tons), was launched. In 1849, C. 1888 Horse Cars between Waterville and Fairfield started operation. 1910 F. P.S. Head of Falls name switch irks some. April 21, 2010 By Amy Calder acalder@centralmaine.comStaff Writer WATERVILLE -- What's in a name? Click image to enlarge HERITAGE: Former Waterville Mayor Tom Nale holds a late 1800's depiction of the "Head of Falls" area that was heavily populated by Lebanese families, including Nale's grandparents whose house once stood in the same spot.
Many Lebanese community members are opposing a proposal to change the name of "Head of Falls" to "Ticonic Falls. " Staff photo by David Leaming A whole lot, if your heritage and history are firmly rooted in a place called "Head of Falls. " A city committee recently changed the name of the waterfront off Front Street from "Head of Falls" to "Ticonic Falls. " However, the change, designed to stir development there, instead has incited opposition and high emotion from those who were born and grew up in the Lebanese and French communities along the Kennebec River. Joseph Jabar Sr., a Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice, also opposes the name change. Cpt?expire=&title=Head+of+Falls+name+switch+irks+some&urlID=425153675&action=cpt&partnerID=565492&cid=91656944&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onlinesentinel.com%2Fnews%2Fhead-of-falls-name-switch-irks-some_2010-04-20.
April 21, 2010 By Amy Calderacalder@centralmaine.com Staff Writer WATERVILLE -- What's in a name? Click image to enlarge HERITAGE: Former Waterville Mayor Tom Nale holds a late 1800's depiction of the "Head of Falls" area that was heavily populated by Lebanese families, including Nale's grandparents whose house once stood in the same spot. Many Lebanese community members are opposing a proposal to change the name of "Head of Falls" to "Ticonic Falls.
" Staff photo by David Leaming A whole lot, if your heritage and history are firmly rooted in a place called "Head of Falls. " A city committee recently changed the name of the waterfront off Front Street from "Head of Falls" to "Ticonic Falls. " However, the change, designed to stir development there, instead has incited opposition and high emotion from those who were born and grew up in the Lebanese and French communities along the Kennebec River.
Joseph Jabar Sr., a Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice, also opposes the name change. Tweet. The King's Daughters. Category:United States Town Lists. New York Family History Research. From Ancestry.com Wiki This entry was originally written by Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FUGA, FGBS, FASG for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. County Map of New York In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the river that bears his name, and in the 1620s the Dutch West India Company established settlements at Fort Orange (Albany) and Manhattan, influencing immigration by other northern Europeans.
By the time of the Revolutionary War, New Englanders had crossed westward into the eastern counties of New York, and settlers from Long Island and New Jersey had migrated to the lower Hudson valley. The American Revolution was a major part of New York’s history. Up to the time of the Revolutionary War, New York had been slower to expand beyond its original settlements than most of the other colonies. Under the Reorganization Act of 7 March 1788, New York was divided into 120 towns (not townships), many of which were already in existence.
Tracing your Irish ancestors at The National Archives. Tracing pre-1914 army ancestors. Emigration records. Irish land records. Published date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:00 GMT With the loss of the 19th century census returns for Ireland, Sharon Hintze guides us through the alternative sources for family historians researching their Irish ancestors. Author: Sharon Hintze Duration: 43:14 Transcript This talk … Incidentally, I am staggered at the number of you who are willing to tear yourselves away from the 1911 to come and listen to a talk on any other topic today. And I am well aware that I am not really the world expert on Irish records, so if you are, and you happen to be sitting here, and I say something that you think needs correction please shout out. Let’s not leave everybody else in the dark. I am going to give a talk which is based largely on records which are accessible at the London Family History Centre, which is opposite the science museum on Exhibition Road.
Civil registration is widely thought to have disappeared. Now I am going to show you, I think, what an entry looks like. [Shows image] Royal Air Force service records. Every journey has two ends: using passenger lists. Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers' service documents. Series WO 97 consists of just over 6,000 boxes of original records of service for men discharged to pension from the British Army at any time between 1760 and 1913. The digitisation of these records has made them available to anybody, worldwide. Originally, the records were arranged according to a number of different criteria. Between 1760 and 1854 they were arranged by regiment, and then in alphabetical order, and again a similar arrangement between 1855 and 1872. Between 1873 and 1882 they were arranged by arm of the service: infantry, artillery, cavalry and then in alphabetical order, and then from 1883 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1913 in two alphabetical sequences.
The content of the series varies according to time and the amount of information that you can discover about an individual who saw service in the British Army does vary. The great thing about the records and the digitisation is that they have been made available to users who can access the records worldwide.
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