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Katahdin Region Cemeteries Early burial grounds
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Katahdin Region Cemeteries
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Early burial grounds by Joyce Pye
The earliest burying-ground noted ture, coffin and casket makers, granite north of the village.” Buried here in in A History of Lincoln, Maine is and marble workers, wheelwrights, 1857, when diphtheria was a constant in the Mattanawcook settlement blacksmiths, and tailors. concern throughout the state, were the on “what was formerly called Snowville Among the names of early settlers wife and two children of Mr. Emory at the south line of Winn,” and one of laid to rest in Lincoln’s burying grounds Bailey, a Howland farmer. the first gravestones to be located there are Gates, Nelson, Chase, Hammond, One might add that both Lincoln is that of Betsey Babcock who died at and Pinkham. Whether the Mattanawand Howland had many bears, for a the age of 33 years in 1825. cook Islands were the primary burial Howland veterinary surgeon was said
Possibly the next cemetery in the sites of the “302 Indians on the Penobto have killed fifty-two since moving area was “on the hill at Lincoln Village scot” reported in the 1815 census was there in 1862 and the Treasurer of Linon State Road.” It was a small lot which difficult to determine. coln — shortly after the town’s incorgrew in time as additional land was acSouthwest of Lincoln and lying at poration in 1829 — paid one hundred quired, and is most likely mentioned in the junction of the Piscataquis and the and twenty-three dollars in bounty an 1882 description in the History of Penobscot Rivers is the village of Howfees on forty-one bears. Within a few Penobscot County: “Lincoln Village is land. As reported in the county histoyears, a bounty was passed on wolves a flourishing place... with a railroad stary published in the last quarter of the and Canadian lynx as well. These facts tion, with side-tracks to the tannery and nineteenth century, Howland was comsuggest that at least a few folks buried the saw-mill,” two churches, a schoolprised of a “town post office, school in Lincoln and Howland may have tanhouse, and a cemetery. Other industries No. 2, two stores, a saw-mill, a hotel, gled with wildlife and lost. listed by the authors were spool, furnia shop or two, and a cemetery a little The town of Brownville, north-
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west of Howland, was incorporated in 1824. An old photograph published in Of Brownville and the Junction depicts dozens of mourners in formal dress posed before a train at the railroad station. The caption indicates it was the mode of transport that carried them “out to the cemetery in the 1890s.”
Last week, a futile search for the site where the photo was taken ended at a brick building posted “Private Property.” Nearby, boxcars lay idle on the track but earlier in the day an engine snaking through town with freight cars labeled “Bangor and Aroostook Railroad” and “Canadian Pacific” had reeled history back to 1919 — two decades after the photo was taken.
In December of 1919, caskets were piled on the lawn of Brownville’s newly-built YMCA. The building itself served as the hospital; the freight shed became a morgue. For just days before Christmas, Canadian Pacific Train No. 39 had smashed into a Canadian Pacific misguided freight train “on side of
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With fifty-nine people injured and nineteen dead, it was one of the most devastating collisions in the history of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Located north of Brownville in Katahdin Country, Millinocket was a late-bloomer. The formation of the Great Northern Paper Company in 1899 and planned construction had brought a flood of immigrants. By 1900 the population had soared to two thousand. The town incorporated a year later. Millinocket: Magic City of Maine’s Wilderness, conveys the challenges of such frantic growth as laborers — Welsh, Italian, English, Scottish, Irish, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, German, Estonian and French-Canadian — poured into the area.
Driving through the tidy town today the casual eye sees no evidence of “Little Italy” or “Shack Hill,” hastily built housing for that influx of humans. But by 1902 the rapid increase in population had created a cesspool for germs, resulting in an epidemic of children’s diseases. The following year typhoid fever, diphtheria, and smallpox raged through the community and necessitated the creation of a “Pest House” for quarantine purposes. The demand was such that a second building was required to accommodate the overflow. One hundred persons were said to have been quarantined and public funerals barred. And, perhaps, the most telling outcome of this period was the establishment of the Millinocket Cemetery in 1903.
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