Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation

SHS/SPL Program
May 5, 2024

Andrew Mackie will discuss a mapping project recently completed by the Land Trust that looks at development changes in the town since 1970. He will use this data to support a bold conservation plan moving forward. He will include recently completed acquisitions by the Scarborough Land Trust and some that are in progress. He will also discuss the Town Council’s resolution regarding 30×30 and the current Open Space plan for Scarborough. 

The next program will be held on Sunday, June 2 when Neil Piper, an agricultural historian and Senior Appraiser for Farm Credit of Maine, will discuss Farming in Maine at the time of Statehood.         

Seating is limited, so please reserve a seat at www.scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS
For more information, call the library at 396-6279.

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Channel 2 this week:

SCARBOROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICES HISTORY PROGRAMS

For those Scarborough residents who would enjoy viewing some Scarborough history
programs on your television sets over the Thanksgiving holidays, here is the schedule
being offered by Scarborough Community Services on Channel 2 this week:

Wednesday, April 17:
 1pm: Like Father, Like Sons – A Scarborough Family in the Revolutionary War,
By Linda Snow
 8pm: Maine’s Logging Heritage – By Mary Morton Cowan
Thursday, April 18:
 12pm: Early Tourism in Scarborough – By Linda Snow McLoon
 6pm: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck – By Philip von Stade
Friday, April 19:
 12pm: Portrait of a 19 th Century Scarborough Family through their Letters – By Linda
Snow McLoon
 7:00pm: Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough – By Dr. Stephen Spaulding
Saturday, April 20:
 12pm: Like Father, Like Sons – A Scarborough Family in the Revolutionary War,
By Linda Snow
 8pm: Maine’s Logging Heritage – By Mary Morton Cowan
Sunday, April 21:
 12pm: Early Tourism in Scarborough – By Linda Snow McLoon
 6pm: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck – By Philip von Stade


Future Talks in the Scarborough Historical Society Speakers Series:

  • May 5: Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation Future
  • June 2: Farming in Maine at the Time of Statehood

Registration, for in-person attendance, is required. Please register at scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS.

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Genealogy Research – Family Files

By Don Taylor, Historian

The Scarborough Historical Society has many resources for genealogy researchers.

Resources include SHS Family Files, Digital Collection, Bill Tolman Memorial Database, Obituaries, Cemetery Records, Genealogies, Vital Records, and the Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection.

My first recommendation for researchers is to review the material in our SHS Family Files.

The SHS Family Files Collection comprises 647[i] file folders (about 15 linear feet) with information on various surnames and several key individuals. Besides specific details, the file folders often include pointers to other records, such as Vital Records. Several file folders have been digitized and are available electronically through our Surname Files Webpage.  Contact the Society via email ([email protected]) for the availability of the files not included on the Surname Files Webpage {Library | People | Surname Files}.

(Use the searchbox below to narrow your view to specific surnames[ii].)

Family File Folders.

Surname Files

Surname File
Ahlquist
Alexander
Alger
Allard
Allen
Allison
Andrews
Angell
Applebee
Auger
Ayer
Babb
Babkirk
Bacon
Baker
Ball
Banks
Barber
Barge
Barker
Barlett
Barlow
Barrett
Barrows
Basson
Baston
Batten
Bayley Bailey Baly
Beale
Beard
Bedford
Beecher
Bell
Bennett
Berry
Bessey
Bibber
Bickford
Bickton
Blackman
Blake
Blanchette
Bliss
Bly
Bogert
Bonney
Bonython
Booth Boothby
Boulter
Bowden Boarden Bodin
Bowes
Bowley
Bowne
Brackett
Bracy
Bradford
Bradley
Bradshaw
Bragdon
Bragg
Briar
Brigham
Brookings Brookins
Brown
Brownsey
Bryant Briant
Budelent
Budway
Burbank
Burnell
Burnham
Burrage
Burroughs
Bushey
Calef
Calley
Cammock
Campbell
Card
Carll
Carlson
Carter
Carter
Cary
Cecil
Chadbourne
Chadwick
Chamberlain
Chandler
Chapman
Chase
Chick
Chipman
Chisholm
Christensen
Christie,Claudia
Chute
Clay
Cleeve
Clemmons
Cleverly
Cloyces-Clayse
Colby
Cole
Collins-Cullins
Cooke
Coolbroth
Cooper
Corbeau
Corliss
Cott
Coues
Cousins
Cox
Craft
Crague
Craig
Craig Links Newsletter
Crockett
Crowley
Cumston
Cunningham
Daicey
Daniels
Davis
Day
Dean
Dearing
Decker
Deering
Delaware
Dennett
Dennis
Derby
Dickson
Dixon
Doe
Dolley
Dolloff
Donahue
Donnell
Doody
Doughty
Douphinett
Dow
Downing
Dresser
Drisco
Dudley
Duley
Dunstan-Dunton
Durgin-Durgan
Durrell
Dyer
Edgecomb
Edmunds-Edwards
Elkins
Elliot
Elwell
Ewing
Fabyan
Fairfield
Fancy
Fenderson,Nathaniel
Fengler
Fernald
Fickett
Field
Fielding
Finney
Flaherty
Flint
Fly-Flye
Fogg
Ford
Foss
Foster
Foxwell-Foxell
Foy-Foye
Frederick-Fredericks
Freeman
Freethy
Frezell
Frost
Fuller
Furniss
Gammon
Gantnier
Garland
Geldart
Gelinas
Gendall
Gervais
Getchell
Gibbs
Gibson
Giles
Gilman
Glanfield
Glicke
Gochie
Goodrich-Goodridge
Goodwin
Googins
Goold-Gould
Gower
Grace
Graffam
Grant
Graves
Greeley
Green-Greene
Greenleaf
Griffin
Gunnison
Guptill
Gustin
Haigis
Haines
Hall
Hallett
Hamblen-Hamlin
Hannaford
Hanson-Hansen
Harding
Harford
Harmon
Harringdton
Hart
Haskell
Hasty,John Reanimation Story
Hawkes
Hayes
Hayward-Heyward
Heald
Heinz
Hersey
Higgins
Hight
Hill
Hillock
Hodgdon
Holmes
Holt
Homer
Honeywell Heritage Newsletter
Hooper
Howatt
Howland
Hoyt
Hudson
Huff
Hughes
Hunkins
Hunnewell-Honeywell
Hunnewell-Honeywell
Hunt
Hurd
Ingalls
Jackson
Jayne
Jellerson-Jellison
Jenkins
Jensen
Jewell
Jocelyn-Josselyn
Johnson
Jones
Jordan
Joss-Jose
Kaler
Kennedy
kenniston
Kilborn
Kimball
King (Rufus) Association
King Genealogies
King Richard
King Richard 2nd
King, (William)
King, Rufus
King, William
Kinney
Knight
Knight
Knox
Krijanovsky
Lacy
Lamb
Lambert
Lancaster
Lane
Larrabee
Lary
Laughton
Leary
Leavitt
Lebby,Nathaniel
Leech
Leighton
Lello
Leslie
Lewis, A Ralph and Frances
Libbee
Libbey
Libby , Charles Thornton
Libby ,Eliakim 1-1-2-9
Libby Benjamin
Libby Joshua J. 11-7-2-6-2-5-3-4
Libby Matthew
Libby Nathan
Libby Publications
Libby, Lydia (Jordan) Seth 5-7-14
Libby, Allison
Libby, Annie Louise
Libby, Arnold
Libby, Benjamin,deacon 1-6-2-4-10-7-4
Libby, Bertha Olive Bertha Libby
Libby, Blanche
Libby, Captain Stephen 5-7-8-3
Libby, Charles Oliver
Libby, Charles, E
Libby, Clark and Dorothy
Libby, Daniel
Libby, Dominicus
Libby, Dorothy Shaw
Libby, Edward
Libby, Emma Agnes Merrill
Libby, Eugene and Jennie 7-2-6-2-5-3
Libby, Forest Allen 1-6-9-8-1-1-4-1
Libby, Freedom 10-5-3-5-6-6
Libby, George
Libby, Goodman
Libby, Harrison
Libby, Henry Augustus 5-7-8-1-4-6-1
Libby, Jethro
Libby, Joab 1 1 3 8
Libby, John Deacon 1 6 9 12
Libby, John, immigrant
Libby, Joseph
Libby, Josiah1-1-6
Libby, Len
Libby, Lewis
Libby, Margaretta A 5-7-8-3-4
Libby, Moses 5-7-8-2
Libby, Name
Libby, Nathaniel10-5-5
Libby, Nehemiah and Parmela 5-2-7-5
Libby, Peletiah 11-6-2-2-
Libby, Samuel and Hannah 11-7-2-4-8-4
Libby, Samuel Ellsworth
Libby, Samuel Manson 10-2-4-9-3
Libby, Seth and Lydia 5-7-14
Libby, Shirley
Libby, stephen Augustus 5-7-8-3-9-3
Libby, Thaddeus Alonzo 10-2-4-3-5
Libby, Thomas J.
Libby, William
Libby, William Dyer 10-5-3-5-4-8
Libby, Winfield Scott 11-9-7-8-2-6
Libby,, Osgood 10 -5-1-10-6
Libby,A.D.T
Libby,Anthony 1-1-2-7
Libby,Eben
Libby,Elbridge
Libby,Elijah 10-4-2-4
Libby,Elisha
Libby,Enoch 10-2-4-8
Libby,Ephraim
Libby,Francis
Libby,James Small
Libby,Kenneth 5-7-14-13-3-5-1-1
Libby,Lida. E
Libby,Lucien
Libby,Luke
Libby,Luther
Libby,Nathaniel
Libby,Perley 10-5-3-5-6-2-?
LIbby,Peter 11-6-2
Libby,Richard 5-7-14-13-3-5-1-2
Libby,Richard and Sarah
Libbys, other Libbys, estate Oakhill
Lilley
LIncoln
Lindholm
LInk
LItchfield
Littlefield
Littlejohn
Lomac
Longfellow
Lord
Lorfano
Lothrop
Lutz
Lyons
Mac Donald
Maddiver
Maden
Maguire
Malcolm
Mallory
March
Marr
Marsh
Marshall
Martin
Mason
Mayberry
Mc Cobb
Mc Daniel
Mc Davitt
Mc Kenney
Mc Lellan
McLaughlin
Mc Laughlin
McLaughlin/Sands
McPhearson
Means
Merrill
Merritt
Merry
Meserve
Miller
Milliken
Mills
Minott
Mitchell
Mitsmenn
Moody
Moore
Morrill
Morris
Morse
Moses
Moulton
Mulholland
Munson
Mussey
Nason
Nelson-Nelsen
Newcomb
Nicholson
Nickles genealogy
Nielson
Nordica-Norton
Norton
Nutter
Nye
O’Brien
O’Donal
O’Roak
Oakman
Odel
Oliver
Osgood
Paige
Paine
Palmer
Parcher
Parker
Parkinson
Parlin
Paul
Paulsen
Payson
Pearce
Pearson
Peary
Pedersen
Penney
Perkins-Parkyns-Morlaix
Perley
Perry
Perry-Pyne
Petersen-Peterson
Phillips
Pierce-Pearce-Peirce
Pike
Pillsbury
Pillsbury Black Point
Pillsbury Pine Point
Pine-Pyne
Piper
Place (surname)
Plaisted
Plowman
Plummer
Plummer-Clifford
Pooler
Pope
Price
Prince
Prout
Purington
Quimby
Rackliffe
Rand
Rawlins-Rollins
Raynes
Reed
Reidy
Reynolds
Rice
Richards
Richardson/Richards
Ricker
Ridlon-Ridley
Ring
Rishworth
Roberts
Robinson
Rogers
Rollins
Ross
Rounds
Rouse
Roy
Royal
Rumery
Ruotolo
Russell
Sanborn
Sanders
Sands
Sapiro
Sargent
Savage
Sawyer
Scammon-Scamman
Scarborough
Schaff
Scott
Scottow
Seavey
Senter
Sewall-Sewell
Shaw
Shelden-Sheldon
Shenefield
Sherman
Shorey
Shute
Simpson
Skillin-Skillen
Skillings
Skolfield
Smale-Small
Smilie
Smith
Snow
Southard
Southgate
Spaark-Sparke
Sparrow
Spear
Sprague
Stam
Stanford
Stanford Genealogy
Steele
Sterling
Stevens
Stiles
Stilphen
Stone
Storey-Storer
Stout
Stover
Strange
Strout
Stuart
Sturtevant
Sullivan
Summers
Swasey
Sweetser
Swett
Swinburne
Sylvester
Talbot
Tarbox
Temm
Tervainen
Thibeau
Thomas
Thompson
Thomson-Thompson
Thornton
Thurlow
Thurston
Tibbets-Tebbets
Tilton
Titus
Tolman
Torrey
Towle
Travis
Trickey
Tucker
Turner
Tyler
Tyng
Urquhart
Ustic
Varney
Verrill
Vinson
Waldo
Walker
Ward
Warren
Wasgatt
Waterhouse
Waterhouse -Stroudwater
Waterhouse Joseph-Genealogy
Waterhouse-Scarborough
Waterman
Watson
Webber
Welch
Wentworth
Wescott and variations
West
Westbrook
Weston
Wheeler
Whipple
Whitten
Wiggin
Wight
Wilbur
Wiley
Willey
Williams
Willman
Wilmot- Wilmott
Winch
Winnock-Whinick
Winship
Winslow
Winter
Witham
Wood – Woodward
Wright
Xaphes
Young

Next time, I’ll briefly examine the Digital Collection, what is available, and how you can access that information.


Endnotes

  1. [i]  The number of folders is subject to change. There were 647 Folders on 6 April 2024. 
  2. [ii] Our thanks to Linda Broadwater & Betty McKown for their indexing these folders. 
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Pages Updated – March 2024

Library

Books

Books Available Online

History of Cumberland Co., Maine by Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford), Published 1880. Available via Internet Archive (Search for both Scarboro and Scarborough).

Videos

March 2024 – Slavery in Maine by Alicia Harding

Due to technical problems, the February 2024 presentation’s recording did not turn out. However, Linda Snow McLoon presented the same program to the Scarborough Adult Education at the Scarborough High School in March 2024. It was recorded and is presented here:

February 2024 – Portrait of a 19th Century Family Through their Letters by Linda Snow McLoon

Due to weather, the January 2024 presentation was rescheduled for April 2024.

Research

Annual Reports

1863-64 Scarborough Annual Report: Archive.org

1870 Scarborough Annual Report: Archive.org (Partial)

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Updated Speaker Series Schedule

SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPEAKERS SERIES

First Sundays from 2-3pm at Scarborough Public Library,
48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, Maine

APRIL 7, 2024 – FULLProminent Diseases in Early Scarborough
        
By Stephen Spaulding, MD

MAY 5, 2024 – Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation                                             Future
        
By Andrew J. Mackie

JUNE 2, 2024 – Farming in Maine at the Time of Statehood
        
By Neil Piper


To Register:

Scan the QR code or go to scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS. Not computer savvy? Call Scarborough Public Library at 207-883-4723 option 4.

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Pages Updated – February 2024

Library

Bibles

The Stone Bible – Surnames include Stone, Haskell.

Rev. Tilton Bible (61.1.1) – 2nd Parish (Dunstan) Congregational Church – Dated 1801. 

Plummer Bible #2 – 2023.01.401 – Appears to be the Bible of David and Alice (Stone) Plummer. It included entries from 1846 to 1931. Surnames include Dyer, Laidlaw, McKeen, Plummer, Roberts, Sinnott, Smith, & Stone.

Videos

Maine’s Logging Heritage
By Mary Morton Cowan

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Pages Updated – January 2024

About

I added a link to the Society’s bylaws.
I corrected the list of current officeholders.

Library

Collections

Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection – Newspaper Clippings

Personalities – 2023.01.38 – 42 clippings – Surnames: Milliken, Barrows, Baxter, Burleigh, Libby, Dyer, Haigis, Harmon, Lothrop, Snow, Winter, Delaware, Poulin, King, Laughton, Burnham, Lindquist, Lorfano, & Moody. Areas of Interest: Pine Point, “Cider Barrel Elm”, Volunteers of America summer camp,

Library | People | Genealogy

Scarborough Families

Scarborough Families – Sawyer – 2023.01.28 (Sections, A, B, C, D, Edward of Rowley, and Addenda)

Scarborough Families – T – 2023.01.27

Scarborough Families – U – 2023.01.27

Scarborough Families – V – 2023.01.27

Scarborough Families – X-Y-Z – 2023.01.30

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Od4tCYOS7s?si=iXuo0G16loNEPzfdScarborough Historical Map Tour
1871-2024
By Dominic Tracey

Library | Videos

Scarborough Historical Map Tour
1871-2024
By Dominic Tracey

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Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough

Rescheduled for April 7, 2024 – 2 to 3 pm – Scarborough Public Library Meeting Room.

Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough
By Stephen Spaulding, MD

We live in an age when much is understood about infectious diseases, and there are effective
treatments to many of the diseases. But in the 17 th -19th centuries that was not the case.
Epidemics of lethal diseases were feared, “consumption” killed many, and even more common
infections could become fatal. This presentation will give an overview of the diseases that our
Scarborough predecessors faced, their impact on life in southern Maine, and how our forebears dealt with them.

Register on the Scarborough Public Library SHS Events page, or telephone the library (207) 883-4723 to register.

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Page/Post Updates – December 2023

I made the following changes/additions to the website during December 2023.

Links Page:

Scarborough Focused Links

Businesses

Rebecca Hillman Pottery (a 2023-2024 Cammock member)

Library | Education

Class of 1948

Photo of the Scarborough High School Students - Photo by Franklin Grant, 1948.
Scarborough High School Students – Photo by Franklin Grant, 1948.

1947-48 SHS Track Team

Library | Education | Grammar Schools

Dunstan

Class of 1961Dunstan Grammar School – Grade 3

Library | People | Genealogy

Scarborough Families

Scarborough Families – B – Burnham – 2023.01.17

Scarborough Families – C – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Timothy Carle – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Daniel Cole – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Cole Genealogy – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of John Coolbroth – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Joseph Collins – 2023.01.18

Scarborough Families – D – 2023.01.18

Scarborough Families – E – 2023.01.19

Scarborough Families – F – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – F – Foss (A) – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – F – Foss (B) – 2023.01.19

Scarborough Families – G – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – G – Googins – Descendants of Patrick Googins – 2023.01.20
The Googins Family in America – Charlotte H. Googins – 1914 – Google Books
Linwood Dyer’s updates & corrections to The Googins Family in America
Scarborough Families – G – Gustin notes – 2023.01.19

Scarborough Families – H – 2023.01.21 (1-100)
Scarborough Families – H – 2023.01.21 (101-133)
Scarborough Families – H – Haigis – 2023.01.21

Scarborough Families – I – 2023.01.19

Scarborough Families – J – 2023.01.22

Scarborough Families – K – 2023.01.22

Scarborough Families – L – 2023.01.22

Scarborough Families – M – Pages 1-100 – 2023.01.23
Scarborough Families – M – Pages 101-200 – 2023.01.23
Scarborough Families – M – Pages 201-216 – 2023.01.23

Scarborough Families – N – 2023.01.24

Scarborough Families – O – 2023.01.24

Scarborough Families – P/Q – 2023.01.24
Scarborough Families – P – Plummer-Dyer – 2023.01.54 (Directory)
Scarborough Families – P – Plummer-Perley – 2023.01.40 (Directory)

Scarborough Families – R – 2023.01.25

Scarborough Families – S – Pages 1-100 – 2023.01.26
Scarborough Families – S – Pages 101-165 – 2023.01.26

Library | People | Surname Files | Surnames – M

McKenney Files includes:

  • John Mackshane of Saugus and John MacKane/MacKanny/MacKenny, et al, of Black Point/Scarborough, Maine are “one & the same.”
  • McKenney Genealogy – from the Linwood Dyer Maine Room, 2023.01.237, 238, & 239.
  • SHS Surname Files – McKenney.
  • SHS Surname Files – McKenney “Pinkies.”

Library | Things | Videos

Now available via YouTube. Mapping Scarborough & Prouts Neck
by Phil von Stade
.

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Upcoming: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck.

Now available via YouTube. Mapping Scarborough & Prouts Neck
by Phil von Stade
.

Prouts Neck Historical Executive Director Philip von Stade will cover the evolution of Scarborough maps from 1605 to the present, from cartographers like Champlain to Google Earth and Apple.  More than just directions from place
to place, maps served many purposes. Some were marketing tools. Later they could provide historic perspective. Others were used to delineate needed infrastructure, school and political districts and impacts of climate change. And so often they are works of art, that encourage us to engage with sense of place and time. Local sources like the Osher Map Library will be discussed along with internet resources, and the importance of aerial and satellite views.

December 3, 2023 – By Philip von Stade

The Scarborough Historical Society and Scarborough Public Library are offering a
program on Sunday, December 3, beginning at 2:00pm at the Scarborough Public
Library.

Now available via YouTube. Mapping Scarborough & Prouts Neck
by Phil von Stade
.

The Scarborough Historical Society has scheduled a full roster of programs for the
coming year. The next program on Sunday, January 7, 2024 will feature Dr.
Stephen Spaulding discussing Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough.

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