Brief
History:
Waldo County was erected 3
July, 1827 (Public Laws, chs.354,362), by
setting off all of Hancock County lying
west of
Penobscot Bay and River,
taking from Lincoln County the towns of
Camden, Hope, Liberty, Montville, and
Palermo, and
Appleton Plantation, and from
Kennebec County the towns of Freedom,
Unity, Montgomery, and Burnham. The
northern
boundary of the county was formed by
the south lines of Penobscot and Somerset
Counties and has remained unaltered.
In
1836, one estate was annexed to
Camden from Warren on Lincoln County
The town of Vinalhaven was annexed
from Hancock County, March 15,1838 (ch.
451) Three homesteads were set off
from
the Town of Palermo to the town of
Washington in Lincoln County, April 11
1854 ( (Public Laws, Chapter 327) The
towns of
Appleton, Camden, Hope, North Haven,
and Vinalhaven were set off to form part
of the new county of waldo, April 1,1860
(Public Laws, ch. 146)
In 1873 part of Clinton Gore
Plantation in Kennebec County was annexed
to Burnham (ch. 384).
The present boundaries of Waldo
County include 26 towns and 1 city: the
city of Belfast and the towns of Belmont,
Brooks,
Burnham, Frankfort, Freedom,
Islesborough, Jackson, waldo, Liberty,
Lincolnville, Monroe, Montville, Morrill,
Northport,
Palermo, Prospect, Searsmont,
Searsport, Stockton Springs, Swanville,
Thorndike, Troy, Unity, Waldo and
Winterport.
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