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Pronounced TREE-mont
Tremont, is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, settled in 1762 and incorporated on June 3, 1848 under the name of Mansell.
The name was change to Tremont from the French for three mountains, Beach, Mansell and Bernard.

  1. June 3, 1848 Incorporated as Mansell. 
  2. August 8 1848 name was changed to Tremont.
  3. February 24, 1859 annexed Hardwood and Tinker's Islands from Seaville.
  4. February 21, 1905 ceded land to form Southwest Harbor.

Mount Mansell named for Sir Robert Mansell, vice-admiral of his Majesty's navy, who was one of the Council of New England and one of the signers of the Great Patent in New England, called the Plymouth Charter.

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Islands

  • Bass Harbor

  • Baldwin Corners

  • Bernard (    )

  • Clark Point

  • Dix Point (    )

  • Dodge Point ( )

  • Duck Cove

  • Goose Cove

  • Goose Cove Rock

  • Lopaus Point (Samuel Lopaus 1776- )

  • McKinley

  • Mitchell Cove

  • Nutter Point (William Nutter    )

  • Richs Corner

  • Richtown

  • Seal Cove

  • West Tremont

  • Bar Island aka Half Island

  • Fernald Cove

  • Fernald Point (Tobias Fernald 1768-1839)

  • Gotts Island  (Daniel Gott 1702-b1785)

    • Great Gott Island

    • Little Gott Island

  • Hardwood Island

  • Moose Island 

  • Rumell Island (Barnard Rumell 1799-1871)

  • Ship Island 

  • Tinkers Island aka Robinson's Island
    (Jonathan Tinker c 1779-1853)
    (David Robinson c 1770-1862)

  • Trumpet

 

A Survey of Hancock County, Maine By Samuel Wasson 1876:

Tremont.—Detached from Mt. Desert and incorporated (26 town) June 3, 1848, under the name of Mansel, but in August of the same year its name was changed to Tremont. Population, 1,822. Wealth, per capita, $145. Derives its name from the Latin of three mountains, viz.:Western, Defile, and Dog mountains. Tinker's, Moose, Hardwood, Gott's and Langley's islands are within its limits. The original titles are chiefly ancient French grants. Gott's Island, named for Daniel Gott, has ten families, and forms a school district. State valuation, $262,353. U. S. valuation, $377,784. Decennary gain, 54.

Union soldiers, 160. State aid, $2,152. Town bounty, $30,053. Cost per recruit, $20.

 

Tremont cemeteries 22 sites
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TOWN OF TREMONT.

State Of Maine. In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

An act to incorporate the town of Mansel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:—

Section 1. All that part of the town of Mt. Desert in the County of Hancock, lying south of a line commencing at Andrew Fernald's north line on Somes' Sound; thence, across the mountain to the head of Deming's Pond; thence, continuing the same course to Great Pond; thence across said pond to the south-east corner of lot number 114, on a plan of said town by John S. Dodge, thence, westerly on the south line of said lot 114, to Seal Cove Pond, and continuing the same course to the middle of said Pond; thence northerly up the middle of Upper Seal Cove Pond to the head thereof, and continuing the same course to the south line of lot marked ' Reuben Noble," on said plan; thence westerly on the south line of said last named lot, to the sea shore, together with Moose Island. Gott's Island and Langley's Island, with the inhabitants thereon, is hereby set off from said town of Mt. Desert, and incorporated into a separate town by the name of Mansel. and vested with all the powers, and privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and liabilities of other incorporated towns, agreeable to the constitution and laws of this State, and is classed in the same Representative District as its inhabitants now are.

Section 2. Said town of Mansel shall be holden to pay the said town of Mt. Desert, such a proportion of the debts and liabilities of the said town of Mt. Desert, beyond their resources now existing, and which may hereafter arise in consequence of any and all suits at law now pending in favour or against said town of Mt. Desert; and also to assume the support of such proportion of all persons supported as permanent or occasional paupers of said town of Mt. Desert, as the last valution of that portion hereby set off, bears to the whole valuation of the town of Mt. Desert.

Section 6. Any Justice of the Peace within said County of Hancock, may issue his warrant to any legal voter residing in the town of Mansel, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof, to meet at a time and place specified in said warrant, for the choice of town officers and to transact such other business as other towns are authorized to do at their annual town meetings.

Section 7. Tills act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the Governor.

In the House of Representatives, June 3, 1848. This bill having had three several readings, passed to be enacted. (Signed,) H. B. Mclellan, Speaker.

In the Senate, June 3,1848. This bill having had two several readings, passed to be enacted.

(Signed,) Caleb R. Ayer, President.

June 5, 1848. Approved.

(Signed,) John W. Dana, Governor.

Secretary's Office, Augusta, Me., June 5,1848.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original deposited in this office.

(Signed,) John G. Sawyer,

Deputy Sec'y of State.

Tremont, Dec. 4.1848.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a. true copy from the original certificate of said John G. Sawyer.

(Signed,) John S. Dodge,

Town Clerk of Tremont.

The sections omitted above, three, four and five, are of minor importance, and would weary more than interest the reader.

A warrant for the first town meeting was issued August 2, 1848, by Wilson Guptill, a ''Justice of the Peace" for Hancock County, to John Rich, a legal voter of the town of Mansel, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town to meet on Wednesday, the 9th day of August, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the red school-house in Bass Harbor, to choose all necessary town officers, adjust matters with lit. Desert, and transact such other business as might legally come before the meeting.

Pursuant to the warrant, Mr. Rich posted a notice at B. Benson, Jr.'s store, (Bass Harbor,) seven days before the meeting.

At the time and place specified, the inhabitants met and were called to order by John Rich. Alfred Harper chosen Moderator, John S. Dodge, Town Clerk; Shubal D. Norton, Seth H. Clark. John S. Dodge, Selectmen and Overseers of the poor; Barnard Rummell, Town Treasurer; Rev. C. M. Brown, S. D. Norton, J. L. Martin, S. S. Committee; Ebon Fernald, James R. Freeman, Edwin Kittredge, Jeremiah Moore, Joshua Eaton, Zebediah Rich, Elias Rich, Ambrose Thurston, Wills Carver, Isaac M. Ober, Benj. Norwood, Samuel O. Harper, School Agents; Enoch Lurvey, Andrew Tarr, Horace Durgan, John Dolliver, Joshua Eaton, Robert Rich, John M. Gott, John Murphy, Benj. Atherton, Jr., Benj. Norwood, Samuel O. Harper, Highway Surveyors; Wilson Guptill, David Hopkins, Eaton Clark, James Reed, Joseph Gott, Constables; John Rich, Collector of Taxes;
John P. Norwood, John Rich, James Reed, Joseph Gott, Benj. Gilley, Fence Viewers; William Heath, Eaton Clark, David Hopkins, Pound Keepers; Benj. Benson, Jr., Henry Clark, Abraham Richardson, Auditors of Accounts.

Voted, That the annual town meeting be held on the first Monday in March.

The usual amount of business which naturally occurs at such times was transacted.