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Great Pond, Great
Parties
It might be a small town but when it comes to social events and
occasions to dress up, Great Pond has always been part of the big
time. From dances, ice cream socials and sewing circles of the past
to hunting parties and Fourth of July parades today, Great Pond
residents have always been socially adept.
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Dave Honey, A Man of the Land
As a real-estate broker, Dave Honey’s livelihood is bound to the
land he buys, develops and sells. It is the one piece of land that
Honey has held on to, though, that may have been the best deal he’s
ever made: The farm in town his family bought in 1940.
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Great Pond: A Town for Old Folks, Old Times
To those rambling north of Route 9 in Aurora, Great Pond suddenly
appears out of the woods and seems like a quiet community of people
living off the land.
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Town’s Past Rooted In Lumber
Great Pond is one of
three small communities that once existed on the fringes of the
great woods of northern Hancock County. Plantation 32, Myra, was
situated to the west of Great Pond (Plantation 33). It was a small
farming community with a population that never exceeded 60. Stud
Mill Road now runs through the community.
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“Wilderness … and Woods”
What
follows is a description of Great Pond by an unknown writer—more
than 100 years ago. Even though the description was taken from the
pages of The Ellsworth American’s Sept. 17, 1891, edition, the
descriptions of the town’s layout and landscape and the town
citizen’s hospitality are remarkably accurate today.
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photographed by James J. Allen. He can be contacted at
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Acreage:
24,414
Population, 2000: 47
Population, 1990: 61
Population, 19 years and younger, 2000: 14
Median age: 41.3
Year-round/Seasonal residences:
1990: 22/27; 2000: 30/37
School: None (students attend Airline Community
School in Aurora)
Town meeting: Second Monday in September
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They
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 “Many
of the people who come out here are very independent.”
- Reginald Archer, Great Pond native
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Circa 1809: Joshua
Williams and his wife, Bethia (Clark) are the first settlers of
Plantation 33, later Great Pond.
1809:
Plantation 33 is surveyed by Ben
Kimball.
1833:
Joshua Williams dies and is buried
at Great Pond.
1891 – 1900:
Three stores are
established in town by merchants Frank Mace, James Emery and John R.
Shuman.
1891 – 1916:
Local doctors from Amherst,
J. Herbert Patten and L.A. Edgerly aid town residents.
1906:
Native son Gleason L. Archer
founds Suffolk School of Law, now known as Suffolk University Law
School, in Boston, Mass.
1943:
First operated by Postmaster
Curtis Sabine, Great Pond Post Office permanently closes.
1981:
Town is incorporated.
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