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Mariaville Is Hancock County’s
Fastest-Growing Town
Of the 36 towns in
Hancock
County,
none is growing as rapidly as Mariaville.
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Yesterday |
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Five Little Communities
To call Mariaville part of the “Old Sawdust Trail” is an odd
moniker, perhaps, but it’s one that accurately portrays the history
of this community.
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Memories |
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“Then I Am
Really Home”
Geneva M. Frost, Mariaville’s second selectman, has lived her entire
life in Mariaville. Today she is taking part in a group effort to
start a historical society for the town.
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Places |
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Folksy Barnes Is Mariaville’s Music
Man
Jimmy Barnes, folk musician, is every bit Mariaville-folk, too. The
journeyman guitar player calls his style “country-eastern.” He sings
and sells CDs largely about life on the water.
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photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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Go
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Acreage:
47,835
Population, 2000: 414
Population, 1990: 270
Population, 19 years and younger, 2000: 143
Median age: 34.6
Library: None
Church: None
School: Beech Hill School in next-door Otis
Town meeting: Last Monday in March
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They
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 “The
family sense may be a little less now, but the changes bring a
variety of new, interesting people.”
—Geneva Frost,
lifelong resident
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Milestones |
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1793:
William Bingham purchases 1 million acres in northern Hancock and
Washington counties.
1796: Donal Ross is
chosen to manage Bingham’s lands.
1798: John Fabrique is
chosen to build a new community at Mariaville Falls.
1804: William Bingham
dies and is buried at Bath, England.
1807: Col. John Black
assumes management of Bingham’s lands.
1810: Fifty families are
listed in “Mariaville So Called”
1829: The Second Mariaville Baptist Church is
formed.
1836: Mariaville
incorporates (and would celebrate its sesquicentennial in 1986).
1861 to 1865: Forty-one
men and boys from Mariaville serve in the Civil War.
1904: Mariaville Grange
is founded.
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