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 Little Machias (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 Little Machias. 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 hospitals and 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.
Little Machias 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 Little Machias. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Little Machias:
- Washington County (The home county of Little Machias)
- The following are listed by their distance from Little Machias, with the one closest to Little Machias listed first.
- Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- North Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- North Cutler is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cutler
- Bucks Harbor
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bucks Harbor is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Harbor
- Dog Town
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Dog Town is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dog Town
- Machiasport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- East Machias
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Whiting
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hoyttown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hoyttown is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyttown
- Machias
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Roque Bluffs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Roque Bluffs is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roque Bluffs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
- Marshfield
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Marshfield is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Whitneyville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Whitneyville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitneyville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Little Machias, see our County-by-County Page for Little Machias.
Cemeteries Near Little Machias ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Machias.
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 Little Machias - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Little Machias covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Little Machias, with the one closest to Little Machias listed first.
- Old Cutler Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Bay View Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Look Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- East Machias Village Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Whiting Village Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- O'Brien Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Court Street Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Longfellow Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- West Lubec Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Dennysville Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Continue List (31 more) ...
- Lubec Town Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Old Seal Cove Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- West Jonesport Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
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 Little Machias in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Little Machias.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Little Machias, with the one closest to Little Machias listed first.
- Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- North Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- North Cutler is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cutler
- Larrabee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Larrabee is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larrabee
- Bucks Harbor
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bucks Harbor is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Harbor
- Machiasport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- East Machias
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Whiting
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Roque Bluffs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Roque Bluffs is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roque Bluffs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
- Machias
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Lubec
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- West Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lubec
- Whitneyville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Whitneyville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitneyville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
- Marion
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Marion is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Jonesboro
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- South Lubec
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- South Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lubec
- Dennysville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Little Machias. See our List of 1890's Communities around Little Machias.
Newspapers Published in Little Machias ...
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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Machias.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Machias, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Machias.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Little Machias:
- 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 Little Machias, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Little Machias) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |