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PALERMO, MAINE

• Early Settlement*

Palermo was earliest known as Sheepscot Great Pond, from the body of water in the southern part of the town through which the Sheepscot River runs, and around which were the first settlements.  The petition for incorporation was presented in 1801, and set forth among other things that they had a great proportion of roads to make and maintain within their bounds, and 10 miles of road at least out of their limits, which road led to the head of navigation on Sheepscot River, their nearest market.’  Among the 55 signers of this petition were Gabriel Hamilton, Jacob Greely, Jabez Lewis, James Dennis, William C. Hay, Joseph Whittier, Charles Lewis, Samuel and Stephen Longfellow, John Gliddon and Joseph Bowler.  The township was surveyed in August, 1800, by William Davis.  The act of incorporaton was passed June 23 1804.

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

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