Lincolnville Historical Society Publications
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LHS is in the process of transcribing some of our publications
into electronic file formats. This
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We're happy to announce the publication of Diane Roesing
O'Brien's Staying Put in Lincolnville, Maine 1900-1950. 
In
it the author follows the fortunes of our little coastal town through
two world wars, the Depression, and all the enormous changes those
fifty years brought. Horses are traded in for gasoline-power, kerosene
lamps for light bulbs, and one-room schools are finally consolidated.
Subsistence farming gives way to contracts with big poultry concerns,
and the mariner's way of life disappears completely.
Staying Put has 344 pages with hundreds of photos, maps, drawings, and charts, soft-cover. Click on the images below for a closer look.
The heart of the book are the seventy-seven family stories, true to the events that life-long townspeople related to the author and placed in settings meant to illustrate the way life was. Town reports, the U.S. Census, letters, diaries and other sources are used to discuss issues such as the school system, political movements, and road building in essay form.
The book is $25 (plus $1.25 tax for Maine residents) plus $3.85 shipping. To order send a check payable to:
Lincolnville Historical Society
P.O.
Box 204
Lincolnville, ME 04849
Or to use a MC/V card: Call 207-789-5987
You may also order online by submitting your information via the email link at left.
Ducktrap: Chronicles of a Maine Village by Diane Roesing O’Brien, 1995, tells the story of Ducktrap, located within Lincolnville, at the mouth of the Ducktrap River. The book includes the writings of those who’ve lived there, their photographs and drawings. Hand-drawn maps pinpoint where events took place.
Dicky Duck, by Dorothy Hardy Santi, 1998. This children’s book
tells the story of three Lincolnville farm children and their pet
duck during the 1930’s.
Three "scrapbook histories" provide a general view of Lincolnville
from the time of settlement in 1770 into the 20th century. Author
Jacqueline Young Watts collected family stories, anecdotes, and photographs
to assemble these volumes.
Lincolnville – Early Days: Volume I, 1976
Lincolnville – As We Remember: Volume II, 1977
Lincolnville Memories: Volume III, Part 1, 1983
A fourth volume, Lincolnville and Its Neighbors,
Volume III, Part 2, 1983, is a reprint of the 1907 Town Register
for Lincolnville, Northport, Belmont, Morrill, Searsmont and Waldo.
It also includes a chapter from Hope’s Early History by Anna
Hardy.
Jessie Alice Young, Schoolteacher, compiled by Isabel Morse Maresh,
1994. Based on the notebook Jessie Young kept of all 90 terms she
taught in one-room school houses in Lincolnville, Northport, and Morrill
from 1907 to 1946, this book lists all the children who ever had Miss
Young for a teacher. Isabel has added a short biography of Miss Young,
and photographs from her own collection. Spiral bound, photocopied.
The Pillsbury Place, by Leslie LeBlanc, 1993. Photocopy of a scrapbook
compiled by the son of the last inhabitants of the old "Pillsbury
place", Rose and Joe LeBlanc. The story of this farm family is
lovingly told through photographs, old documents and Leslie’s
recollections.
Lincolnville Births-Deaths-Marriages. This volume includes photocopies
of the original records alongside a typed transcript of each record.
All existing records up to 1892 are included, along with an every
name index. Birth and death records are spotty, but the marriages
and marriage intentions are complete.
Camden Births-Deaths-Marriages. This includes Rockport which was once
part of Camden. These contain the same sort of records as described
above, but they are not transcribed. However, the handwriting is beautiful
and legible.
Heal/Heald Genealogical Workbook,
by Isabel Morse Maresh. Available unbound, photocopied on 3-hole punch
paper.
Lermond Family, by Annie Morse
Cilley and Isabel Morse Maresh. Available unbound, photocopies on
3-hole punch paper
Young Genealogical Workbook, by Isabel
Morse Maresh, Jacqueline Young Watts and Donald Watts. Available unbound,
photocopies on 3-hole punch paper.