The Story of Nelson 4209 by Young Rolfe, Dam Gretchen -- Bred & Trained by C.H. Nelson, Proprietor of Sunnyside Farm on the Oakland Road in Waterville, Maine

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The Winner's Circle at First Tracks Cumberland & Hall of Fame Recipients

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Horse Competitions at Maine Agricultural Fairs

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Famous American Trotting Horses including Maine's Mac and Hopeful

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Incorporation Dates of Maine's Agricultural Societies

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Aroostook County -- Farming with Horses in Limestone, Maine

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A Lost Trotting Parks Storyboard Sampler, Finding Kingfield's Lost Trotting Park, The Aroostook War, and the Libby Family of West Buxton, Maine

 

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When Stagecoaches Connected Mainers throughout the State and New England

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Noted Maine Horses published by J.W. Thompson from Canton, Maine in 1874 -- Describing the Sires and Get in Maine Prior to 1874

The Horse Families, the Names of Horses, The Breeders, Years Bred, Purchasers, Racing Times, Premiums

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1802 Documents Associated with the Separation of Waterville, Maine from Winslow, Maine -- Source: The Archives of the State of Massachusetts -- Links to Books with Greater Details

Introduction by Earl Smith

Dean of College Emeritus, Colby College
Author of Water Village: The History of Waterville, Maine

In April of 1771 the English settlement at Teconnet, first called Kingfield Plantation, was incorporated by the General Court of Massachusetts as the fourth town in the District of Maine and re-named it in honor of General John Winslow. Four years later, almost to the day, the first blood of the American Revolution was spilled at the Concord Bridge.

            The town’s only real brush with war came in the fall of 1775, when the central house of the unmanned garrison at Fort Halifax, by then a town hall and tavern, greeted Benedict Arnold’s doomed expedition on its faltering way to Quebec.

            The river place that confounded Arnold’s troops also hindered the governing of the growing town of Winslow. It was difficult to collect taxes and hard to provide teachers and preachers, and in 1791 town fathers petitioned the Commonwealth to be rid of the bothersome west bank place they called Ticonic Village. Although the cross-river land had never been at the center of things (the Indians used it only as a burial ground) townspeople were reluctant to give it up, and the petition was delayed five years while they experimented with alternating town and religious meetings in the Lithgow meetinghouse on the east bank and at the home of Elnathan Sherwin (Sherwin Street, later home of Silas Redington) across the river. It was impossible. Petitioners claimed that “in the spring season, at the annual meetings held in said Town, the Inhabitants thereof living on the opposite side from where the said meeting is to be held are frequently prevented by the particular situation of said River from crossing the same to attend said meeting.”

            In 1801, with 800 of Winslow’s 1250 inhabitants now living west of the river, the ruling court was again asked to cut the town in two. At a special town meeting on December 8, voters adopted a petition that read, in part: “That the now Town of Winslow shall be divided through the middle of the river Kennebeck (sic) as the river usually runs across the width of said Town” and “That part of said Town which lay on the Eastern side of the Kennebeck shall retain the name of Winslow, and the part which lay on the Western side be erected into a town by the name of Waterville.”  On June 23, 1802, the petition was granted, creating the new town and by local decree, a place called West Waterville (Oakland). Waterville became the 138^th township in the District of Maine.

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Present Day Photos of Waterville, Maine

 

Maine 200 Banners -- Picturesque Augusta 1890 & Historic Map and Images of Today -- Exploring Yesterday and Today! Plus The History of Augusta published in 1870

Images & the First Chapter from
The History of Augusta,

from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time 

With Notices of the Plymouth Company, and Settlements on the Kennebec; Together with Biographical Sketches and Genealogical Register by James W. North (1870)

The Maine 200 Banners

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Clink the Link below -- A Google Book -- The History of Augusta, Maine

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_Augusta_from_the_Earliest/KXuB72zLFUMC?hl=en&gbpv=1