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 Eastport (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 Eastport. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.
Eastport 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 Eastport. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Eastport:
- Washington County (The home county of Eastport)
- The following are listed by their distance from Eastport, with the one closest to Eastport listed first.
- North Lubec
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- North Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lubec
- Lubec
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Perry
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 934 people
- South Lubec
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- South Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lubec
- Pembroke
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- West Pembroke
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- West Pembroke is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pembroke
- North Perry
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Perry
- Dennysville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Lower Dennysville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Lower Dennysville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Dennysville
- Whiting
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Robbinston
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Charlotte
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Charlotte is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Red Beach
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Red Beach is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Beach
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Eastport, see our County-by-County Page for Eastport.
Cemeteries Near Eastport ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eastport.
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 Eastport - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Eastport covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Eastport, with the one closest to Eastport listed first.
- Hillside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Bayside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Cummings Cove Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- St. Anne's Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- St. Anne's Anglican Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Fairhaven United Baptist Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Fairhaven Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhaven Cemetery
- The Fairhaven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Calders Head Cemetery
- Old Calder's Head Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2424219 <2>
- Lubec Town Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Wilson's Beach Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Wilson's Beach Community Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Leonardville Community Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- West Lubec Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Continue List (59 more) ...
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hillside Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Dennysville Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Eastport had a population of 4,800 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Eastport had a population of 1,275 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Eastport, with the one closest to Eastport listed first.
- North Lubec
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- North Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lubec
- Lubec
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Perry
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 934 people
- South Lubec
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- South Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lubec
- West Lubec
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- West Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lubec
- Pembroke
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- West Pembroke
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- West Pembroke is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pembroke
- North Perry
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Perry
- Dennysville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Whiting
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Robbinston
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- South Robbinston is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Robbinston
- Robbinston
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Charlotte
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Charlotte is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Red Beach
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Red Beach is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Beach
- Marion
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Marion is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Eastport. See our List of 1890's Communities around Eastport.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Eastport ...
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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eastport.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Eastport. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Eastport and those printed in the larger area surrounding Eastport.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4> of Eastport.
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 Eastport:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Washington County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 Eastport, 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- Eastport) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |