Welcome to Detroit, Maine

Incorported as town of Chandlerville February 18, 1828. Name changed to Detroit March 18, 1841

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If you would like to adopt the Detroit Town site, please contact the Somerset County Coordinator

What's involved when you adopt a town site?  If you are able to make webpages and upload them to a server, and you have an interest in Detroit, then this may be something you are interested in.  If you are interested in posting information on Detroit but do not want to be involved with learning how to make web pages and uploading them, you may still volunteer to be a Co-Coordinator for Detroit!  In either case, please contact the Somerset County Coordinator.
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Somerset County Genealogical Databases

Somerset County Resources

Mailing List for Somerset County. For those interested in the History and Genealogy of Somerset County Maine. To subscribe send message to MESOMERS-L with subscribe in the body of the message.

The Somerset County Me US GenWeb Archives Table of Contents

Special Maine 1837 Census This is a Special Maine State Census or enumeration of the inhabitants on the 1st Mar 1837 taken pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of Maine passed 8 Mar 1837.

The East Somerset County Register. Complied and Published by Chatto & Turner Auburn, ME 1912. TABLE OF CONTENTS Courtesy of Androscoggin Historical Society & ME Somerset County US GenWeb Project
The Kennebec Valley THIS WORK IS DEVOTED TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE VALLEY; ALSO RELATING MANY INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS; INCLUDING A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE KENNEBEC INDIAN. S. H. WHITNEY 1887. Augusta: Sprague, Burleigh & Flynt, Printers to the State. 1887 ME Somerset County US GenWeb Project

Sebastian Rale A Maine Tragedy of the Eighteenth Century by John Francis Sprague Author of "Piscataquis Biography and Fragments," and "History of Doric Lodge," Etc. Boston, Mass. Printed by the Heintzemann Press 1906. Table of Contents

Courtesy of Androscoggin Historical Society & ME Somerset County US GenWeb Project

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