Patten, Maine Patten, Maine Patten, Maine is positioned in Maine Patten, Maine - Patten, Maine Patten is a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Patten Drug Store in Patten, Maine, at corner of Main and Katahdin Streets.
The town was titled for Amos Patten, a resident of Bangor, Maine, who about 1828 purchased Township No.
4, Range 6, as it was then designated, for its vast timber supply. In 1829 Amos Patten hired Ira Fish and Eli Kellogg to survey the land. The surveyors soon asked permission to establish their homes in Patten.
The town was incorporated on April 16, 1841 and given its present name at that time. By 1850 the populace numbered 470, reaching 704 in 1870, and 716 inhabitants in 1880. The town's transit framework gradually appeared.
A bill to appoint Trustees of the Patten Academy passed the Maine council and was signed by the governor in 1847. The Patten Academy opened its doors with 61 students in September, 1848, and educated its inhabitants for more than a century.
As noted below, Patten is situated in close adjacency to a several major rivers and streams.
Two factors explain Patten's comparatively early development, and its position as the primary town of the Penobscot panhandle and southwestern Aroostook in the nineteenth century.
First, it is the first town beyond the Mount Katahdin range, giving it access to the upper East Branch and lower Allagash River basins, which were dominant lumbering areas.
As a result, lumbering stimulated very early evolution of commerce and farming; and the town early attained the status as the distribution center and cultural hub of all the suburbs west of Houlton and north of Lincoln.
Patten lies on the edge of the Mattawamkeag River fitness basin, almost at the edge of the East Branch of the Penobscot River's basin.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 38.25 square miles (99.07 km2), of which, 38.19 square miles (98.91 km2) of it is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Patten has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. As of 2000 the median income for a homehold in the town was $26,900, and the median income for a family was $35,000.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,017 citizens , 447 homeholds, and 283 families residing in the town.
The median age in the town was 47.6 years.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Patten town, Penobscot County, Maine".
"Profile for Patten, Maine".
Maine Place Names and the Peopling of its Towns.
History of Patten Academy, The Trustees of the Patten Academy, 1947, p.
Finch, Juanita Bates; Jennifer Bates Ryan, Ed.
An Informal History of the Town of Patten, Maine (2nd printing ed.).
History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches.
History of Penobscot County Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Williams, Chase & Co., 1882, p.
History of Patten Academy, The Trustees of the Patten Academy, 1947, p.
Climate Summary for Patten, Maine "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
Katahdin Lodge and Camps of Patten, Maine in 1969, Northern Maine Adventures photo album Patten Area Links, from Veterans Memorial Library Katahdin Webcam in Patten [Patten, Maine] A Hill Town in New England.
An Informal History of the Town of Patten, Maine.
History of Patten Academy.
Patten, ME: The Trustees of the Patten Academy.
Municipalities and communities of Penobscot County, Maine, United States
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