Aurora
Aurora is a town in Hancock County, incorporated in 1831 and was first settled in 1805
- 1822 Plantation Number 27 (also known as Richards) formed from township T27 MD BPP
- February 1, 1831 incorporated as Hampton
- February 6, 1833 name was changed to Aurora.
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A Survey of Hancock County, Maine By Samuel Wasson 1876: Aurora.—Incorporated February 1, 1831. Area
23,040 acres. Population, 212. Wealth, per capita, $155. Derived its name
from Aurora, goddess of morning. Its first settlers were four brothers,
Samuel, Benjamin, David and Roswell Silsby, who came here in 1805. For
some years they had, as there were no roads, to carry their grain on their
backs, seven or eight miles to have it ground. This was one of the
"lottery" townships, and was incorporated as Plantation No. 27, in 1822.
The "Whale's Back," one of those formations known as "horsebacks," is in
this town. The "air-line road" passes over it for a distance of three and
one-half miles. Decennary loss, 65. State valuation, $32,052. U. S.
valuation, $56,154. |
