Waldo County, Maine Gen Web Site

MONROE, MAINE

• Early Settlement*

The settlements in Monroe commenced soon after those in Frankfort, which was settled about 1760.  “Lee Plantation,” was the name by which these were known until 1822, when it was incorporated under the name of Monroe, in honor of Hon. James Monroe, at that time president of the United States.

* From "A Gazetteer of the State Of Maine" by George Varney published in 1886 as excerpted from Ray's Place

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