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 Lubec (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 Lubec. 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 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.
Lubec 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 Lubec. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lubec:
- Washington County (The home county of Lubec)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lubec, with the one closest to Lubec listed first.
- North Lubec
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- North Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lubec
- South Lubec
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- South Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lubec
- Eastport
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Perry
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 934 people
- Pembroke
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Whiting
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- West Pembroke
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Pembroke is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pembroke
- Dennysville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Lower Dennysville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Lower Dennysville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Dennysville
- North Perry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- North Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Perry
- Charlotte
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Charlotte is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Robbinston
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cutler
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lubec, see our County-by-County Page for Lubec.
Cemeteries Near Lubec ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lubec.
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 Lubec - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lubec covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lubec, with the one closest to Lubec listed first.
- Lubec Town Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- St. Anne's Anglican Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- St. Anne's Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- West Lubec Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bayside Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Hillside Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Wilson's Beach Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Cummings Cove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Wilson's Beach Community Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Fairhaven Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 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>
- Fairhaven United Baptist Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Leonardville Community Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Continue List (53 more) ...
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Whiting Village Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hillside Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Lubec had a population of 1,800 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Lubec had a population of 1,267 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lubec, with the one closest to Lubec listed first.
- North Lubec
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- North Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lubec
- South Lubec
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- South Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lubec
- Eastport
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- West Lubec
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- West Lubec is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lubec
- Perry
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 934 people
- Whiting
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pembroke
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- West Pembroke
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Pembroke is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pembroke
- Dennysville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- North Perry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- North Perry is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Perry
- South Robbinston
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- South Robbinston is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Robbinston
- Robbinston
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Charlotte
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Charlotte is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Marion
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Marion is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Cutler
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lubec. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lubec.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lubec ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lubec.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lubec. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lubec and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lubec.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4> of Lubec.
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 helpful 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 Lubec:
- 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 Lubec, 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' (or 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- Lubec) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |