History of Garland, Maine, USA

The present towns of Garland and Lee, both situated in the present county of Penobscot, were the townships granted.

In the summer of this year openings were made on nine-teen different lots with the purpose of making homes for an equal number of families. These openings were widely scattered over the township...

The school was an essential factor in the progress of New England civilization. It sprang from New England ideas as naturally as weeds from the fire-swept lands of the new settlement. The necessary conditions were few and simple. A half dozen children of school age, living within a mile of a common center, a person qualified to instruct in the simplest rudiments of English literature whose services were available, books of the most elementary character and, in warm weather, a spare corner in some house or barn — these were all the conditions necessary to the opening of a school. The products of the soil constituted the currency of the inhabitants and teachers were usually satisfied to receive these in payment for their services.

After the coming into the township of the Gordon and Chandler families in 1805, the necessary conditions were fulfilled and a school was opened in Joseph Garland's barn, expenses being paid by the parents of the children. Miss Nancv Gordon, afterwards the...

The first town meeting was held on the first day of April, 1811, at the house of Isaac Wheeler, Esq., which stood upon the site of the residence of the late William B. Foss, now the home of F. D. Wood and family, a few
rods north of the Free Baptist church.

In 1828 the town established the first cemetery within its limits, in what is now District No. 7. Its location is near the schoolhouse in that district, and is known as the Burnham Cemeterv. Before this, the dead had often been buried on the premises of relatives, and their graves had been subject to neglect and desecration when such premises changed hands.

Garland, Maine
Penobscot county. Garland is watered by some of the head branches of Kenduskeag stream. It lies 74 miles N.E. by N. from Augusta and 27 N.W. from Bangor. Incorporated, 1811. Population, 1830, 621; 1837, 932. This is an excellent township of land; it produced, in 1837, 6,521 bushels of wheat.