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• 1839 - New Vineyard
  New Vineyard, Maine
  Franklin county. This town is watered by a branch of Seven Mile brook. The surface of the town is uneven, but the soil, generally, is productive. It produced, in 1837, 7,063 bushels of wheat. Population, same year, 870. Incorporated, 1802. It lies 40 miles N.W. from Augusta and ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1854 - New Vineyard
  New Vineyard, a post-township of Franklin co., Maine, about 48 miles N. W. from Augusta. Population, 635.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
•   1854 - July 28 - Joseph Emery, lately the Postmaster at New Vineyard, has been sentenced to the State prison for ten years, for purloining letters from the mail.
  
  The Athens Post
  Athens, Tennessee
  July 28, 1854
  
•   1882 - February 25 - Mrs. Stewart was alone and unarmed when two tramps took forcible possession of her house, at New Vineyard, Me.
  While they were eating and drinking in the kitchen, she whittled a stick into the shape of a pistol, blackened it with soot, then made a fierce onslaught on the rascals, who fled precipitately.
  The Lafayette Adviser
  Lafayette, Louisiana
  February 25, 1882
  
• 1886 - New Vineyard
  New Vineyard is situated in the eastern part of Franklin County, having Strong on the west and the latter and Freeman on the north-west, Industry on the south-east, the latter and Farmington on the south, Industry and Anson in Somerset County on the east and Strong, Freeman and New Portland in... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1886 - September 21 - Three Deaths at New Vineyard
  FARMINGTON, Sept. 20. Capt. Leonard Hackett, eighty-five years old, Hannah Wilcox, sixty-five, and Jonathan Look, jr., aged forty-four, all died Saturday in the neighboring town of New Vineyard, suddenly. The first named was one of the oldest citizens in town and had been a member of the... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1890 - August 7 - Stationary Traveling.
  Thoreau believed, or sometimes talked as if he believed, that everything was to be found in Concord. There was no great occasion for traveling, he thought. If you really needed to see anything, you had only to stay at home, and in due time it would come to you.
  
  This was somewhat whimsical, and... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1893 - Fatal Hunting Accident
  Farmington, Me., Oct. 4. - While three young men of New Vineyard were hunting yesterday, the gun of one of them was accidentally discharged and the contents passed through the body of Raymond Dexter, aged 18, killing him instantly.
  The Fitchburg Sentinel
  Fitchburg, Massachusetts
  October 4, 1893
  
• 1895 - New Vineyard
  New Vineyard, vin'yard, a post-hamlet in New Vine yard township, Franklin co., Me., 10 miles N. of Farming ton. It has 3 churches, a high school, and a manufactory of spools. Pop. of the township, 755.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
•   1898 - September 2 - NOTCH GANG of Counterfeiters in the Mountains of Maine.
  [Lewiston (Maine) Journal.]
  
  "I see by the papers that the famous Notch Gang of New Vineyard is again rampant," said a Farmington man who came out of the dining hall of the Victoria Hotel in Lewiston to-day, and lit a cigar in the office. "Now, I know something of that gang. It is, or has been in ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1906
  New Vineyard, a post-village in New Vineyard township (town), Franklin co., Me., 10 miles N. of Farmington. Pop. of the town in 1900, 584.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
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