Ellsworth, Maine Ellsworth, Maine Bridge over the Union River in downtown Ellsworth Bridge over the Union River in downtown Ellsworth Official seal of Ellsworth, Maine Location of town/city of Ellsworth in the state of Maine Location of town/city of Ellsworth in the state of Maine Ellsworth, Maine is positioned in the US Ellsworth, Maine - Ellsworth, Maine Heavy traffic alongside the Camden National Bank downtown; Ellsworth is now the quickest burgeoning city in the state of Maine.
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Ellsworth is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hancock County, Maine, United States. The 2010 Enumeration determined it had a populace of 7,741.
Ellsworth was Maine's quickest burgeoning city from 2000 2010, with a expansion rate of nearly 20 percent.
With historic buildings and other points of interest, Ellsworth is prominent with tourists. 1.1 Postcards of Ellsworth According to the history of the Passamaquoddy Indians, the Ellsworth region was originally inhabited by members of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes: "Both groups speak closely related Algonquian languages, although anthropologists generally group the Passamaquoddies linguistically with the Maliseets and the Penobscots with the Abenakis." Varney, in the 'Hancock County, Maine' section of his Gazetteer of the State of Maine, presented in Boston in 1886, wrote: It is likely that the French who established a colony at Somes Sound on Mount Desert Island in 1613, under the patronage of Madame de Guercheville, explored the Ellsworth region and what is now the watershed of the Union River.
Varney believes that there were French settlements of some kind or another as close to Ellsworth as Trenton, Oak Point, Newbury Neck and Surry.
The Ellsworth region was disputed between the English and the French throughout the 17th century and well into the 18th century, occasioning intermittent warfare which was known to the English as the French and Indian Wars.
After the 1763 signing of the Treaty of Paris by the governments of the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal, Ellsworth became part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The undivided history of Ellsworth begins with the settlement of the Union River region around 1763 by a party of English led by company doers Benjamin Milliken and Benjamin Joy, from present-day southern Maine and New Hampshire, who intended to build dams and sawmills to exploit the area's timber and water power.
They applied for grants offered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to encourage settlement of the Hancock County area.
Davis in his History of Ellsworth, Maine, presented in Lewiston, Maine, in 1927, relates what is known of this early expedition and points to the northern end of the present Water Street, just to the south of the present bridge athwart the Union River, as the site of the earlier crude buildings erected by the pioneers.
"The first grants of territory in the county were six townships, each six miles square, between the rivers Penobscot and Union (then known as the Donaqua), which were granted to David Marsh et al., by the General Court of Massachusetts, upon conditions, one of which was that they should settle each township with 60 Protestant families inside six years.
In 1773 the first schooner was assembled at Ellsworth.
In the years up to the beginning of the 20th century, many schooners of various sizes were assembled in Ellsworth shipyards along the Union River.
Albert Davis records that in the latter part of the 18th century, Ellsworth was known as the Union River Settlement and was adjoining to the settlements of Surry (to the east) and Trenton (to the south).
That name having been already taken by a settlement in present-day Oxford County, Maine, the town was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1800 as Ellsworth, titled for Oliver Ellsworth, the Connecticut delegate to the 1787 National Convention that was then working on a Constitution for the new United States of America, and later the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Oliver Ellsworth is thought to be first to suggest the name "United States of America".
However, there were no formal battles in the Ellsworth region during the Revolutionary War.
In 1838, Ellsworth became the governmental center of county of Hancock County, replacing Castine.
The 1838 county buildings still stand, west of the Union River, on Bridge Hill.
Military training was held in front of the county buildings on Bridge Hill, west of the Union River, at the site of the present Civil War Monument.
In 1869, Ellsworth was incorporated as a town/city by the Maine Legislature.
The first City Hall was Hancock Hall, which stood at the corner of Main Street and School Street.
In 1888, electricity was introduced into the Ellsworth area.
The disputed town/city elections in 1896 resulted in the appointment of two separate Ellsworth law enforcements, each of which threatened to arrest the other.
Work on the Ellsworth hydro-electric dam began in 1907, at the site of one of the initial Benjamin Milliken Union River dams.
A spring freshet rushed over the dam and carried off the metal Union River Bridge, along with many buildings along the river, such as the Dirigo Theater, the Foundry and many wharves and warehouses.
The Great Fire of 1933 finished most of Ellsworth's downtown commercial district, on the east side of the Union River.
The unique Ellsworth City Hall dates from this period.
The 1960s and '70s saw the evolution of an Ellsworth company precinct on High Street, which is the direct route to and from Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.
Ellsworth is positioned at 44 34'20" North, 68 28'34" West (44.572223, -68.476039). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 93.92 square miles (243.25 km2), of which 79.28 square miles (205.33 km2) is territory and 14.64 square miles (37.92 km2) is water. Located at the head of navigation, Ellsworth is drained by the Union River.
Ellsworth Falls is the locale of the Agassiz Outcrop , a National Historic Landmark, notable for its early recognition as evidence of glaciation.
Ellsworth City Hall (1935) Bean Outlet in Ellsworth The First Congregational Church of Ellsworth is a United Church of Christ congregation.
Cornerstone of First Congregational Church of Ellsworth The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.7% White, 0.7% African American, 0.4% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other competitions, and 0.9% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,305 homeholds of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 38.0% were non-families.
Ellsworth Historical Society Building Benjamin Milliken, American Loyalist and founder of Ellsworth, Maine City of Ellsworth, Maine Ellsworth Public Library Downtown Ellsworth Tourist Site Updated by Nick Sarro and Denise Hue Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce Ellsworth American weekly journal Maine.gov Ellsworth, Maine Ellsworth, Maine travel guide from Wikivoyage "Ellsworth, a town/city and the capital of Hancock co., Maine".
Municipalities and communities of Hancock County, Maine, United States
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