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Welcome to Piscataquis
County Maine Genealogy Research
Taken by S.J. Chase, Sixth Maine
Regiment Reunion 1895
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Piscataquis County Maine
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Piscataquis
County Data
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Brief
History:
Piscataquis County
(/pɪˈskætəkwɪs/ pih-SKAT-ə-kwiss) is a
county located in the U.S. state of
Maine. Its county seat is
Dover-Foxcroft. The county was
incorporated on March 23, 1838, taken from
the western part of Penobscot County and
the
eastern part of Somerset
County. It is named for an
Abenaki word meaning "branch of the river"
or "at the river branch."
Originally, the county extended
north to the Canada–US border, but in 1844
its northern portion was annexed by
Aroostook
County. In terms of land area,
Piscataquis is one of the largest U.S.
counties east of the Mississippi River. It
is also one of two
counties in the Northeast (and seven
counties east of the Mississippi River)
that meet Frederick Jackson Turner's
requirements
for "frontier" country – that is,
having fewer than six inhabitants per
square mile, the other being Hamilton
County, New York.
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