Overview of Major Events in Trescott History

• Pre-history: Passamaquoddy Indians roamed the entire downeast Maine/ New Brushwick Canada region hunting and fishing.
  
  
• Circa 1785: Trescott first settled.
  
  
• 1791: Originally called Plantation No. 9 E. D. (Eastern District of Machias) as part of one million acres in Maine purchased by Philadelphia magnate and land investor William Bingham from the Commonweath of Massachusetts.
  
  
• February 7, 1827: Incorporated as the town of Trescott; named for Major Lemuel Trescott, prominent resident of Lubec during the Revolutionary War.
  
  
• War of 1812: Naval skirmishes fought along Trescott coast and harbors.
  
  
• 1800s and early 1900s: Economy based on farming, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, and sheep raising. Harbors were at Bailey's Mistake, Haycock Harbor, Moose Cove and the Bay at the South Branch of the Cobscook River (now called Whiting Bay).
  
  
• 20th century: Economy based mostly on timber, fishing, blueberry fields and poultry.
  
  
• Late 1930s: New Deal plan to flood much of Trescott as part of Quoddy Tidal Power project; eventually dropped.
  
  
• March 8, 1945: De-organized due to declining population.
  
  
• Mid 1980s: Tidal Power flood plan revived and rejected.
  
  
• 1988–1992: Successful fight to stop National Park Service from designating privately owned south Trescott coast as a National Natural Landmark and taking over Trescott and most of Washington County for new National Park.
  
  
• 1995: Bonnie Healy began researching history of Trescott and its early settlement. Founded Trescott Historical Society May 2000; first meeting October 2000.

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Last updated: 5/23/10