Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Bowerbank (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Bowerbank. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Bowerbank is located in Piscataquis County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Piscataquis County: Aroostook, Penobscot & Somerset.
Below are the counties that are near Bowerbank. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bowerbank:
- Piscataquis County (The home county of Bowerbank)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bowerbank, with the one closest to Bowerbank listed first.
- Steadman Landing
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Steadman Landing is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steadman Landing
- Sebec
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Dover - Foxcroft
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Brownville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Howard Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Howard Corner is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard Corner
- Brownville Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Brownville Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville Junction
- South Dover
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- South Dover is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dover
- East Sangerville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- East Sangerville is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sangerville
- Willimantic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Willimantic is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willimantic
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- Atkinson Mills
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Atkinson Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkinson Mills
- Atkinson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Atkinson is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkinson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 311 people
- Sangerville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Penobscot County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bowerbank, with the one closest to Bowerbank listed first.
- Silvers Mills
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Silvers Mills is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silvers Mills
- Charleston
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Charleston is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,675 people
- Garland
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Garland is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,046 people
- North Bradford
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- North Bradford is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bradford
- Dexter
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Russell Corner
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Russell Corner is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell Corner
- Lagrange
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Bradford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bradford Center
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bradford Center is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradford Center
- Maxfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Maxfield is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Exeter
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Exeter is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,098 people
- Corinth
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Somerset County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bowerbank, with the one closest to Bowerbank listed first.
- Ripley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Ripley is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
- Cambridge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mainstream
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mainstream is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mainstream
- Saint Albans
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Harmony
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mayfield Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mayfield Corner is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfield Corner
- Brighton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Brighton is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
- Brighton has also been known as:
- Brighton Plantation
- Hartland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Palmyra
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bowerbank, see our County-by-County Page for Bowerbank.
Cemeteries Near Bowerbank ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bowerbank.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bowerbank - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bowerbank covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bowerbank, with the one closest to Bowerbank listed first.
- Bowerbank Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Sebec Village Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Sebec Corner Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Rural Grove Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Gray Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Foss Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Guilford Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- McAllister Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- North Atkinson Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- South Dover Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Village Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Village Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (77 more) ...
- Hart Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Farnham Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Bowerbank in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bowerbank.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bowerbank, with the one closest to Bowerbank listed first.
- Sebec
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Barnard
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Barnard is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- East Dover
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- East Dover is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dover
- South Sebec
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Sebec is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Sebec
- Brownville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- East Sangerville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- East Sangerville is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sangerville
- South Dover
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- South Dover is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dover
- Brownville Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Brownville Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville Junction
- Willimantic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Willimantic is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willimantic
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- North Guilford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- North Guilford is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Guilford
- Sangerville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Atkinson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Atkinson is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkinson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 311 people
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Onawa
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Onawa is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onawa
- Guilford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dover South Mills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Dover South Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover South Mills
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bowerbank. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bowerbank.
Newspapers Published in Bowerbank ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bowerbank.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bowerbank, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bowerbank.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Bowerbank:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Piscataquis County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Penobscot County
- Somerset County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bowerbank, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bowerbank) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |