Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… farmers and their animals from throughout Hancock County. There were cisterns (remains of which can still be found in the woods), sheds and…"

Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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Surry by the Bay - Resources

"Jellison, Connee. Hancock County a rock-bound paradise: A Bicentennial Pictorial. The Downing Company Publishers, 1990. Platt, David D."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… early deeds can be found in the Lincoln County or Hancock County court houses. The original town records for the Plantation of Mount Desert -- now…"

Surry by the Bay - Welcome

"… to SurrySurry Historical Society Welcome to the Hancock County coastal community of Surry. As the postcard says, you're in for a good time."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Resources

"2001 ed. Ellsworth, Me.: Hancock County Pub., 1898. Print. Westbrook, Perry D. Biography of an Island . South Brunswick: Yoseloff, 1971. Print."

Maine State Archives

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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"With no delegates from Washington or Hancock counties, little interest from York County and objections due to the Coasting Law, the effort soon died…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… a deed of trust recorded in Book 406, Page 127 of Hancock County Registry of Deeds.) Captain John Savage II (1801-1868)Northeast Harbor…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… by Rose P. Ruze, dated 2005 – private publication Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Ellsworth, Maine – URL = http://www.hancockcountydeeds.com/…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"(See Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Book 1, p. 448-449. John Manchester, Settler, paid the DeGregoires five Spanish milled dollars for a 100 acre…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"… from Massachusetts to Dedham in the northwest Hancock County, where they farmed and raised their family."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… published in 1796 called The Unmasked Nabob of Hancock County or The Scales Dropt from the Eyes of the People."

Acadia National Park

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Old York Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"Resources LeVine, Sarah (editor), Toddy Pond, Hancock County, Maine, A History, 2005. Personal interview with Wilbur Saunders, February 2012."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"1976Raymond H. Fogler Library Hancock Street buildings, Bangor, ca. 1976Raymond H. Fogler Library Secretary Cohen was born and raised on…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… William Eliot worked with George Dorr to form the Hancock County Trustees of Reservations in 1901. It was this organization which acquired the…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… to the summer theater-going public of coastal Hancock County. Just months before the start of the Great Depression, a group of actors, directors…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… and the rest of the land in western parts of Hancock County went to public auction, where it was purchased by Jarvis and his brother, Phillip, who…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The 1881 edition of Colby's Atlas – Hancock, County, Maine lists five Surry merchants and dealers selling dry and fancy goods, boots, crockery…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… together to perform the two operas at the Hancock County Auditorium. These were bare bones concerts without the pageantry of costumes, sets, or a…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… over which town would host the first academy in Hancock County. The people of Castine were disappointed, since they had sent a request for a high…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… were now competing with town schools throughout Hancock County, and every home game was well attended."