Welcome to the Maine Postal History website.
The goal of this website is to provide information about the postal history of the State of Maine and its towns and cities from the beginning of the “Statehood Period” (1820 March 15) to date. On these pages we hope to include images of the earliest and latest postmarks of each given style found from each town that has or had a post office, images of post offices, images of postal routes, and the history of each post office. A possible future goal is to include Railway Post Offices (RPO’s) and Steamship mail.
Please note that this project is still in a transition stage from the V. F. Thomas website to the Waterville Stamp Club website. Some pages here might continue to show the old contact information, but V. F. Thomas asks that you use the new contact information instead: postalhistorymaine@gmail.com . We will be trying to update that information on each page, as well as uploading much new information.
How to contribute to this website: Scanned images of Maine’s covers/postmarks, post offices, postal route maps, and anything else related to Maine’s postal history are welcome. You can e-mail them to us at the addess shown above. Due to the backlog of unprocessed material we have on hand, we urge you to get in touch before sending material right now. And, of course, please report all errors. Here is an opportunity for people all around Maine (and beyond) to share their special interests in Maine’s postal history. Your comments and suggestions are encouraged. Thank you for your help.
A little work by each of us will save a lot of work for all of us.
Below is an alphabetical list of Maine’s sixteen counties. Click on any county and you will be taken to an alphabetical list of the minor civil divisions in that county. (Alternatively, you can scroll down the page to that list of all minor civil divisions.) When some postal history is known for a particular city, town, township, or plantation, that civil division’s name is linked to a web page that presents that history.
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Auburn (update 20230316) Durham (update 20230309) Greene (update 20230304) Leeds (update 20230305) |
Lewiston (update 20230314) Lisbon (update 20230308) Livermore (update 20230308) Livermore Falls |
Mechanic Falls (update 20230316) Minot Poland Sabattus |
Turner Wales Wales test |
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Allagash Amity Ashland Bancroft Benedicta Township Big Twenty Township Blaine Bridgewater Caribou Cary Plantation Castle Hill Caswell Chapman Clayton Lake Township Connor Township (test format) Cox Patent Cross Lake Township Crystal Cyr Plantation Dudley Township Dyer Brook E Township Eagle Lake Easton Forkstown Township Fort Fairfield Fort Kent Frenchville Garfield Plantation Glenwood Plantation Grand Isle Hamlin Hammond Haynesville Hersey Hodgdon Houlton Island Falls Limestone Linneus Littleton Ludlow Macwahoc Plantation Madawaska Madawaska Lake Township Mapleton |
Mars Hill Masardis Merrill MolunkusTownship Monticello Moro Plantation Nashville Plantation New Canada New Limerick New Sweden North Yarmouth Academy Grant Township Oakfield Orient Oxbow Plantation Perham Portage Lake Presque Isle Reed Plantation Saint Agatha Saint Croix Township Saint Francis Saint John Plantation Scopan Township Sherman Silver Ridge Township Smyrna Square Lake Township Stockholm T1 R5 WELS T2 R4 WELS T3 R3 WELS T3 R4 WELS T4 R3 WELS T7 R5 WELS T8 R3 WELS T8 R5 WELS T9 R3 WELS T9 R4 WELS T9 R5 WELS T9 R7 WELS T9 R8 WELS T10 R3 WELS T10 R6 WELS T10 R7 WELS |
T10 R8 WELS T11 R4 WELS T11 R7 WELS T11 R8 WELS T11 R9 WELS T11 R10 WELS T11 R11 WELS T11 R12 WELS T11 R13 WELS T11 R15 WELS T11 R16 WELS T11 R17 WELS T12 R7 WELS T12 R8 WELS T12 R9 WELS T12 R10 WELS T12 R11 WELS T12 R12 WELS T12 R13 WELS T12 R14 WELS T12 R15 WELS T12 R16 WELS T12 R17 WELS T13 R5 WELS T13 R7 WELS T13 R8 WELS T13 R9 WELS T13 R10 WELS T13 R11 WELS T13 R12 WELS T13 R13 WELS T13 R14 WELS T13 R15 WELS T13 R16 WELS T14 R5 WELS T14 R6 WELS T14 R7 WELS T14 R8 WELS T14 R9 WELS T14 R10 WELS T14 R11 WELS T14 R12 WELS T14 R13 WELS |
T14 R14 WELS T14 R15 WELS T14 R16 WELS T15 R5 WELS T15 R6 WELS T15 R8 WELS T15 R9 WELS T15 R10 WELS T15 R11 WELS T15 R12 WELS T15 R13 WELS T15 R14 WELS T15 R15 WELS T16 R6 WELS T16 R8 WELS T16 R9 WELS T16 R12 WELS T16 R13 WELS T16 R14 WELS T17 R3 WELS T17 R4 WELS T17 R12 WELS T17 R13 WELS T17 R14 WELS T18 R10 WELS T18 R11 WELS T18 R12 WELS T18 R13 WELS T19 R11 WELS T19 R12 WELS TA R2 WELS TC R2 WELS TD R2 WELS Upper Molunkus Township Van Buren Wade Wallagrass Washburn Webbertown Township Westfield Westmanland Weston Winterville Plantation Woodland |
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Alder Stream Township Avon Beattie Township (T2 R8 WBKP) Carrabassett Valley Carthage Chain of Ponds Township (T2 R6 WBKP) Chesterville Coburn Gore Coplin Plantation Dallas Plantation Davis Township Eustis |
Farmington Freeman Township Gorham Gore Industry Jay Jim Pond Township Kibby Township Kingfield Lang Township Lowelltown Township Madrid Township Massachusetts Gore |
Merrill Strip Township Mount Abram Township New Sharon New Vineyard Perkins Township Phillips Rangeley Rangeley Plantation Redington Township Salem Township Sandy River Plantation Seven Ponds Township |
Skinner Township Stetsontown Township Strong Temple Tim Pond Township Township 6 North of Weld Township D Township E Washington Township Weld Wilton Wyman Township |
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Amherst Aurora Bar Harbor Blue Hill Brooklin Brooksville Bucksport Castine Cranberry Isles Dedham Deer Isle Eastbrook Ellsworth |
Fletchers Landing Township Franklin Frenchboro Gouldsboro Great Pond Hancock Lamoine Mariaville Mount Desert Oqiton Township Orland Osborn Otis |
Penobscot Sedgwick Sorrento Southwest Harbor Stonington Sullivan Surry Swans Island T3 ND T7 SD T9 SD T10 SD T16 MD |
T22 MD T28 MD T32 MD T34 MD T35 MD T39 MD T40 MD T41 MD Tremont Trenton Verona Island Waltham Winter Harbor |
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Albion Augusta Belgrade Benton Chelsea China Clinton Farmingdale |
Fayette Gardiner Hallowell Litchfield Manchester Monmouth Mount Vernon Oakland |
Pittston Randolph Readfield Rome Sidney Unity Township Vassalboro Vienna |
Waterville Wayne West Gardiner Windsor Winslow Winthrop |
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Alna Boothbay Boothbay Harbor Bremen Bristol |
Damariscotta Dresden Edgecomb Hibberts Gore Jefferson |
Monhegan Island Plantation Newcastle Nobleboro Somerville South Bristol |
Southport Waldoboro Westport Island Whitefield Wiscasset |
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Adamstown Township Albany Township Andover Andover North Surplus Andover West Surplus Batchelders Grant Township Bethel Bowmantown Township Brownfield Buckfield Byron C Surplus Canton Denmark |
Dixfield Fryeburg Gilead Grafton Township Greenwood Hanover Hartford Hebron Hiram Lincoln Plantation Lovell Lower Cupsuptic Township Lynchtown Township Magalloway Plantation |
Mason Township Mexico Milton Township Newry Norway Otisfield Oxbow Township Oxford Paris Parkertown Township Parmachenee Township Peru Porter Richardsontown Township |
Riley Township Roxbury Rumford Stoneham Stow Sumner Sweden Township C Upper Cupsuptic Township Upton Waterford West Paris Woodstock |
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Alton Argyle Township Bangor Bradford Bradley Brewer Burlington Carmel Carroll Plantation Charleston Chester Clifton Corinna Corinth Dexter Dixmont Drew Plantation East Millinocket Eddington Edinburg Enfield Etna Exeter Garland Glenburn |
Grand Falls Township Greenbush Greenfield Township Grindstone Township Hampden Hermon Herseytown Township Holden Hopkins Academy Grant Township Howland Hudson Indian Island Penobscot Indian Reservation Kenduskeag Kingman Township Lagrange Lakeville Lee Levant Lincoln Long A Township Lowell Mattamiscontis Township Mattawamkeag Maxfield Medway |
Milford Millinocket Mount Chase Newburgh Newport Old Town Orono Orrington Passadumkeag Patten Plymouth Prentiss Township T7 R3 NBPR Pukakon Township Seboeis Plantation Soldiertown Township T2 R7 WELS Springfield Stacyville Stetson Summit Township T1 R6 WELS T1 R8 WELS T2 R8 NWP T2 R8 WELS T2 R9 NWP T3 Indian Purchase Township |
T3 R1 NBPP T3 R7 WELS T3 R8 WELS T3 R9 NWP T4 Indian Purchase Township T4 R7 WELS T4 R8 WELS T5 R7 WELS T5 R8 WELS T6 R6 WELS T6 R7 WELS T6 R8 WELS T7 R6 WELS T7 R7 WELS T7 R8 WELS T8 R6 WELS T8 R7 WELS T8 R8 WELS TA R7 WELS Veazie Veazie Gore Webster Plantation Winn Woodville |
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Abbot Atkinson Barnard Township Beaver Cove Big Moose Township Blanchard Township Bowdoin College Grant East Township Bowdoin College Grant West Township Bowerbank Brownville Chesuncook Township Cove Point Township Days Academy Grant Township Dover-Foxcroft Eagle Lake Township East Middlesex Canal Grant Township Ebeemee Township Elliottsville Township Frenchtown Township Greenville Guilford Harfords Point Township Islands of Moosehead Lake Katahdin Iron Works Township Kineo Township Kingsbury Plantation Lake View Plantation Lily Bay Township Lobster Township |
Medford Milo Monson Moosehead Junction Township Mount Katahdin Township Nesourdnahunk Township Northeast Carry Township Orneville Township Parkman Rainbow Township Sangerville Sebec Shawtown Township Shirley Soper Mountain Township Spencer Bay Township T1 R9 WELS T1 R10 WELS T1 R11 WELS T1 R12 WELS T1 R13 WELS T2 R9 WELS T2 R10 WELS T2 R12 WELS T2 R13 WELS T3 R10 WELS T3 R11 WELS T3 R12 WELS |
T3 R13 WELS T4 R9 NWP T4 R9 WELS T4 R10 WELS T4 R11 WELS T4 R12 WELS T4 R13 WELS T4 R14 WELS T4 R15 WELS T5 R9 WELS T5 R11 WELS T5 R12 WELS T5 R14 WELS T5 R15 WELS T6 R10 WELS T6 R11 WELS T6 R12 WELS T6 R13 WELS T6 R14 WELS T6 R15 WELS T7 R9 NWP T7 R9 WELS T7 R10 WELS T7 R11 WELS T7 R12 WELS T7 R13 WELS T7 R14 WELS T7 R15 WELS |
T8 R9 WELS T8 R10 WELS T8 R11 WELS T8 R14 WELS T8 R15 WELS T9 R9 WELS T9 R10 WELS T9 R11 WELS T9 R12 WELS T9 R13 WELS T9 R14 WELS T9 R15 WELS T10 R9 WELS T10 R10 WELS T10 R11 WELS T10 R12 WELS T10 R13 WELS T10 R14 WELS T10 R15 WELS TA R10 WELS TA R11 WELS TB R10 WELS TB R11 WELS Trout Brook Township TX R14 WELS Wellington Williamsburg Township Willimantic |
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Arrowsic Bath Bowdoin |
Bowdoinham Georgetown Perkins Township |
Phippsburg Richmond Topsham |
West Bath Woolwich |
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Alder Brook Township Anson Appleton Township Athens Attean Township Bald Mountain Township T2 R3 Bald Mountain Township T4 R3 Big Six Township (T6 R19 WELS) Big Ten Township (T10 R17 WELS) Big W Township Bigelow Township Bingham Blake Gore (T5 R4 NBKP) Bowtown Township Bradstreet Township Brassua Township Brighton Plantation Cambridge Canaan Caratunk Carrying Place Town Township Carrying Place Township Chase Stream Township Comstock Township (T4 R18 NBKP) Concord Township Cornville Dead River Township Dennistown Plantation Detroit Dole Brook Township (T3 R5 NBKP) |
East Moxie Township Elm Stream Township (T4 R16 WELS) Embden Fairfield Flagstaff Forsyth Township Hammond Township (T3 R4 NBKP) Harmony Hartland Highland Plantation Hobbstown Township Holeb Township Indian Stream Township Jackman Johnson Mountain Township King and Bartlett Township Lexington Township Little W Township Long Pond Township Lower Enchanted Township Madison Mayfield Township Mercer Misery Gore Township Misery Township Moose River Moscow Moxie Gore New Portland Norridgewock |
Palmyra Parlin Pond Township Pierce Pond Township Pittsfield Pittston Academy Grant (T2 R4 NBKP) Pleasant Ridge Plantation Plymouth Township (T1 R4 NBKP) Prentiss Township (T4 R4 NBKP) Ripley Rockwood Strip T1 R1 NBKP Rockwood Strip T2 R1 NBKP Russell Pond Township (T5 R16 WELS) Saint Albans Saint John Township (T6 R16 WELS) Sandbar Tract Township Sandwich Academy Grant Township Sandy Bay Township (T5 R3 NBKP) Sapling Township Seboomook Township Skowhegan Smithfield Soldiertown Township T2 R3 NBKP Solon Squaretown Township Starks T3 R4 BKP WKR T3 R5 BKP WKR T4 R5 NBKP |
T4 R17 WELS T5 R6 BKP WKR T5 R7 BKP WKR T5 R17 WELS T5 R18 WELS T5 R19 WELS T5 R20 WELS T6 R17 WELS T6 R18 WELS T7 R16 WELS T7 R17 WELS T7 R18 WELS T7 R19 WELS T8 R16 WELS T8 R17 WELS T8 R18 WELS T8 R19 WELS T9 R16 WELS T9 R17 WELS T9 R18 WELS T10 R16 WELS Taunton & Raynham Academy Grant The Forks Plantation Thorndike Township Tomhegan Township Upper Enchanted Township West Forks Plantation West Middlesex Canal Grant |
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Addison Alexander Baileyville Baring Plantation Beals Beddington Berry Township Big Lake Township Brookton Township Calais Cathance Township Centerville Township Charlotte Cherryfield Codyville Plantation Columbia Columbia Falls Cooper Crawford Cutler |
Danforth Day Block Township Deblois Dennysville Devereaux Township Dyer Township East Machias Eastport Edmunds Township Forest City Township Forest Township Fowler Township Grand Lake Stream Plantation Greenlaw Chopping Township Harrington Indian Township Jonesboro Jonesport Kossuth Township Lambert Lake Township |
Lubec Machias Machiasport Marion Township Marshfield Meddybemps Milbridge Northfield Pembroke Perry Pleasant Point Princeton Robbinston Roque Bluffs Sakom Township Steuben T6 ND BPP T6 R1 NBPP T8 R3 NBPP T8 R4 NBPP |
T11 R3 NBPP T18 MD BPP T19 ED BPP T19 MD BPP T24 MD BPP T25 MD BPP T26 ED BPP T30 MD BPP T36 MD BPP T37 MD BPP T42 MD BPP T43 MD BPP Talmadge Topsfield Trescott Township Vanceboro Waite Wesley Whiting Whitneyville |
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Acton Alfred Arundel Berwick Biddeford Buxton Cornish Dayton |
Eliot Hollis Kennebunk Kennebunkport Kittery Lebanon Limerick Limington |
Lyman Newfield North Berwick Ogunquit Old Orchard Beach Parsonsfield Saco Sanford |
Shapleigh South Berwick Waterboro Wells York |