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[GREEN-field] was a town in Penobscot County, incorporated on January 29, 1834 from Greenfield Plantation. Even though it was growing in population, Greenfield relinquished its status as a town in 1993 and is now an unorganized township. Much earlier it was known as Township No. 38 Middle Division, Bingham’s Penobscot Purchase (T38 MD BPP). Annexed from Hancock County on March 15, 1858, its peak recorded population of 357 was in 1860.

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1839 - Greenfield

Greenfield, Maine
Hancock county. This town was incorporated in 1834. It was No. 38 on the Bingham Purchase. See "Down East."

The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839

1906 - Greenfield

Greenfield, a post-township (town) of Penobscot co., Me., about 22 miles NE. of Bangor. Pop. in 1900, 160.

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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