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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 Brookton (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 Brookton. 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 hospitals and 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.

Brookton is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Aroostook, Hancock & Penobscot.

Below are the counties that are near Brookton. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Brookton:

  • Washington County     (The home county of Brookton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookton, with the one closest to Brookton listed first.
    • Codyville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Codyville is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Codyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
      • Codyville has also been known as:
      • Codyville Plantation
    • Topsfield
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Forest City Landing
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Forest City Landing is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest City Landing
    • Forest City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Danforth
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Lambert Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Lambert Lake is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lambert Lake
    • Talmadge
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Talmadge is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmadge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
    • Waite
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Vanceboro
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Grand Lake Stream Plantation
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Grand Lake Stream Plantation is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Lake Stream Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
    • Princeton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Grand Lake Stream
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Aroostook County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookton, with the one closest to Brookton listed first.
    • Weston
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Bancroft
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Wytopitlock
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Wytopitlock is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wytopitlock
    • Orient
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Reed Plantation
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Reed Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
    • Haynesville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Macwahoc Plantation
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Macwahoc Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macwahoc Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 74 people
    • Glenwood Plantation
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Glenwood Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
    • Amity
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Amity is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
    • Molunkus
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Penobscot County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Brookton, see our County-by-County Page for Brookton.

Cemeteries Near Brookton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brookton.

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 Brookton - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Brookton covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Brookton, with the one closest to Brookton listed first.

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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Brookton had a population of 79 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Brookton, with the one closest to Brookton listed first.

  • Forest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
  • Eaton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Eaton is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton
  • Topsfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Forest City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Danforth
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Lambert Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Lambert Lake is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lambert Lake
  • Waite
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Carroll
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Carroll is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
    • Carroll has also been known as:
    • Carroll Plantation
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Carroll
    • From Brookton to Carroll
  • Weston
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Vanceboro
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • South Bancroft
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • South Bancroft is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Bancroft
  • Bancroft
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Brookton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookton.

Newspapers Published in Brookton ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brookton, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Brookton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Brookton:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brookton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Brookton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.