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 Halls Corner (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 Halls Corner. 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.
Name Variations for Halls Corner ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Halls Corner: Halls Cor. (or less commonly used: Halls Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Halls Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Halls Corner may originally have been Hall's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Halls Corner might be written as Hall Corner.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Halls Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Halls Corner.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Halls Corner is located in Aroostook 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 Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.
Below are the counties that are near Halls Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Halls Corner:
- Aroostook County (The home county of Halls Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Halls Corner, with the one closest to Halls Corner listed first.
- Moro Plantation
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Moro Plantation is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
- Hersey
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hersey is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
- Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
- Merrill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Merrill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
- Island Falls
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dyer Brook
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Dyer Brook is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer Brook
- Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
- Oakfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Smyrna Mills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Crystal
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Crystal is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
- Smyrna
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
- Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
- Ludlow
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Ludlow is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
- Sherman Mills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Sherman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Sherman is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
- Population from the 2020 Census: 773 people
- New Limerick
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Penobscot County
- The following are listed by their distance from Halls Corner, with the one closest to Halls Corner listed first.
- Mount Chase
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Chase is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chase
- Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
- Shin Pond
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Shin Pond is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shin Pond
- Patten
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Sherman Station
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sherman Station is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Station
- Stacyville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Stacyville is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacyville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Piscataquis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Halls Corner, with the one closest to Halls Corner listed first.
- Old City
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Old City is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
- New City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- New City is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New City
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Halls Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Halls Corner.
Cemeteries Near Halls Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Halls Corner.
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 Halls Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Halls Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Halls Corner, with the one closest to Halls Corner listed first.
- Marley Bradford Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Hersey Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bates Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Darling Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cooper Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Crystal Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Tarbell Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Village Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Dyer Brook Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Merrill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- St. Agnes Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Barrows Chambers Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (54 more) ...
- Smyrna Mills Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Oakfield Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Golden Ridge Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
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 Halls Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Halls Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Halls Corner, with the one closest to Halls Corner listed first.
- Moro
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Moro is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro
- Hersey
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hersey is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
- Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
- Patten
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Island Falls
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dyer Brook
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Dyer Brook is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer Brook
- Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
- Crystal
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Crystal is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
- Oakfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Smyrna Mills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Smyrna
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
- Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
- Sherman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Sherman is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
- Population from the 2020 Census: 773 people
- Sherman Mills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Stacyville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Stacyville is located in Penobscot County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacyville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Oxbow
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- New Limerick
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Linneus
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Linneus is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
- Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Halls Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Halls Corner.
Newspapers Published in Halls Corner ...
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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Halls Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Halls Corner, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Halls Corner.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Halls Corner:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Aroostook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Penobscot County
- Piscataquis County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Halls Corner, 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- Halls Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |