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Trenton:
Silent Witness to a Forgotten Age
Communities develop their own unique identities, sometimes based on
an occupation, trade or industry, and sometimes based on
geography. Trenton is a community that grew up along the waters
of the Union River, Western
Bay and Mount
Desert
Narrows. These waters provided the early community with a
highway of trade, commerce and communication.
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Neighbor |
Young Voices
Four Trenton Elementary School 8th graders—Aaron Rourk, Amy
Boudreau, Derek Pelletier and Nick Swanson— contributed essays
about their town for today’s profile. Their topics—a schoolmate
who died, the Trenton Grange, citizen-statesman-storyteller
Dennis Damon and Trenton traffic—are as insightful as they are
varied. Space does not permit publishing all four essays, so we
selected one that developed a theme brought up in interviews
with town officers: traffic.
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Today |
“A Great
Place to Live”
With
an airport and a business park, the town of Trenton is bustling
yet beautiful with inspiring views. “I get to get up in morning,
and see the bay and Cadillac Mountain with a hot cup of coffee,”
said Trenton native George Hopkins, whose Route 230 home
overlooks Goose Cove. “I really enjoy getting up in the
morning.”
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Today |
Down Route 3,
a Success Story
Thanks
to lots of planning and a $400,000 state grant, the town of
Trenton has built a successful business park with a focus on the
maritime industry. The eight-lot park, which is near the Hancock
County-Bar
Harbor airport, was built in 1999 and has just one empty lot,
according to Selectman Jim Cameron. However, there is a business
interested in the lot and Cameron hopes to have it filled by
next May.
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Acreage: 12, 529
Population, 2000: 1,370
Population, 1990: 1,060
Population, 19 years and younger, 2000: 372
Median age: 40.7
School: Trenton Elementary
Churches: Baptist, 1
Town meeting: First Saturday in April
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“I like the people. It’s a great place
to live.”
—George Hopkins, Trenton native
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The early years
1784:
The Rev. John Urquhart, first settled
minister.
1789:
Trenton incorporates Feb. 16, 1789.
1790:
First town meeting, included citizens
from Plantation No. 7.
1795:
Seven school districts in Trenton and
Ellsworth.
1836:
First bridge connecting Trenton with
Mount Desert is built.
1849:
Thompson Island is annexed to Trenton.
1860:
Population 1,400.
1900:
Population 459.
1907:
Bayside Grange No. 476, in Ellsworth,
founded June 20, 1907.
1925:
Trenton Grange No. 550 founded Feb. 19,
1925.
1936:
Original hanger is built at the
airport.
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