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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 Pigeon Hill (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 Pigeon Hill. 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 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 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.

Pigeon Hill 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 Pigeon Hill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pigeon Hill:

  • Washington County     (The home county of Pigeon Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pigeon Hill, with the one closest to Pigeon Hill listed first.
    • East Steuben
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • East Steuben is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Steuben
    • Steuben
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Milbridge
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Cherryfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Harrington
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Addison
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Beals
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Beals is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beals
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 504 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beals <1>
    • Columbia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Columbia is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 469 people
    • Jonesport
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Columbia Falls
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Epping
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Epping is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epping
    • Centerville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Centerville is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
  • Hancock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pigeon Hill, with the one closest to Pigeon Hill listed first.
    • Corea
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Gouldsboro
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Prospect Harbor
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Birch Harbor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • South Gouldsboro
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • South Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gouldsboro
    • West Gouldsboro
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • West Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Gouldsboro
    • Winter Harbor
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Goodwin Siding
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Goodwin Siding is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin Siding
      • Goodwin Siding has also been known as:
      • Goodwins
    • East Sullivan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Sorrento
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Bar Harbor
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Sullivan
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Pigeon Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pigeon Hill.

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 Pigeon Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Corea Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Steuben Village Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steuben Village Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Steuben Village Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the southwest of Milbridge.
    • The Steuben Village Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Moore Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2167087 <3>
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant River Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Rock Maple Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Flat Bay Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • The Graveyard
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Hall Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Morse Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (79 more) ...
    • Church Hill Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest Hills Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Birch Tree Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 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.<4>

While we didn't find Pigeon Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pigeon Hill.

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

  • East Steuben
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • East Steuben is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Steuben
  • Steuben
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Milbridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Prospect Harbor
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Gouldsboro
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Birch Harbor
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • South Addison
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • South Addison is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Addison
  • Winter Harbor
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • West Harrington
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • West Harrington is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Harrington
  • West Gouldsboro
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • West Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Gouldsboro
  • South Gouldsboro
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • South Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gouldsboro
  • Ashville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Ashville is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashville
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Cherryfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Harrington
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • East Sullivan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Pigeon Hill ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pigeon Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pigeon Hill, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pigeon Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Pigeon Hill:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pigeon Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Pigeon Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.