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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 Sherman (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 Sherman. 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 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Sherman)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherman, with the one closest to Sherman listed first.
    • Sherman Mills
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Benedicta
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Crystal
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Crystal is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
    • Island Falls
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Hersey
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Glenwood Plantation
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Glenwood Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
    • Macwahoc Plantation
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Macwahoc Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macwahoc Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 74 people
    • Dyer Brook
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Molunkus
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Reed Plantation
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Reed Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
    • Haynesville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Moro Plantation
      (20 miles [32.2 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
  • Penobscot County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherman, with the one closest to Sherman listed first.
    • Sherman Station
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Sherman Station is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Station
    • Stacyville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Patten
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Mount Chase
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Mount Chase is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chase
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Shin Pond
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Medway
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Medway is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medway
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,312 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medway <1>
    • East Millinocket
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Millinocket
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Drew Plantation
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Drew Plantation is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drew Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 37 people
    • Woodville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Woodville is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 235 people
    • Mattawamkeag
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Kingman
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Piscataquis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sherman, with the one closest to Sherman listed first.
    • Old City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Old City is located in Piscataquis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
    • New City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • New City is located in Piscataquis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New City
  • Washington County
    • Danforth
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Sherman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sherman.

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 Sherman - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Sherman Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Sherman Mills Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Benedict Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Golden Ridge Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Silver Ridge Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Agnes Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Crystal Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Village Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hersey Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Pierce Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Rollins Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Clifford Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (52 more) ...
    • Twombly Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Eastman Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Bates Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Sherman had a population of 152 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Sherman had a population of 773 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Sherman ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sherman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sherman, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sherman.

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 websites either 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 Sherman:

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>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 Sherman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Sherman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.