A Guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Brown Map Collection
(MCC: 93-00035
Prepared by Lisa Ornstein Acadian Archives/ Archives acadiennes University of Maine at Fort Kent Fort Kent, Maine
Completed 10 July 1995 Revised 22 January 2007
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Access to the Collection 3
Theodore Roosevelt Brown: Biographical Sketch 3
Scope and Content Notes 4
Item-Level Inventory 5
Appendices
Item-Level Index by Township 19
History of the Arrangement of the Collection 26
Theodore Roosevelt Brown Map Collection
Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt Brown Accession Number: MCC:93-00035
Collection Title: Theodore Roosevelt Brown Map Collection
Date Range: 1917-1976 Quantity: 63 surveyor’s maps
Physical Characteristics/Condition: Collection includes: blue prints; diazo prints; graph paper pencil and/or ink on tracing paper or drafting linen; photocopies. Maps range in size from 8.5” x 11” to 18’5.25” x 20.75”. Most maps are in good condition.
Introduction. This collection consists of 63 survey maps of northern Maine prepared by, copied by, or collected by Theodore Roosevelt Brown, surveyor from Eagle Lake, Maine. Mr. Brown’s widow, Mrs. Katherine B. Brown, donated these maps to the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes in 1993.
Access. No restrictions on access. Cite as: “Theodore Roosevelt Brown Map Collection, MCC:93-00035, Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent.”
Biographical Sketch. Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt Brown was born 19 February 1906 in Eagle Lake, Maine, the son of John Mitchell Brown and Flavie Pinette. His father was a self-educated man who worked in an number of capacities including notary, judge, surveyor, and town manager.
Theodore Brown graduated from Fort Kent High School and took courses at the Madawaska Training School. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, he performed semi-professionally as a banjo player in a dance band called the Swanee Serenaders and helped his father with his accounting and surveying businesses. He also worked as a substitute teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary School;
In 1940, Brown married Katherine Burns, of Eagle Lake, a teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary School. In 1941, the Browns moved to Augusta where Mr. Brown worked as a state police dispatcher. In 1942, the relocated to Cottage Siding (in the St. John, Maine area) where Mr. Brown kept books for local mill owner Buddy England. The following spring, Mr. Brown and his family moved to Plaisted, Maine, and he began keeping books for Great Northern Paper Company.
By the end of the 1940s, Mr. Brown had taken up surveying as a part-time profession, using equipment which he inherited from his father. Eventually, he set up a fulltime work schedule of summertime surveying and wintertime accounting. His sons John and Philip sometimes helped him with his survey work.
Theodore Brown retired from surveying in the 1960s. He died in Portland, Maine, 5 July 1981. (Source: telephone interview with Mr. Brown’s widow, Katherine Brown, 7 July 1995). Scope and Content Notes. This collection consists of 63 surveys maps of northern Maine prepared by, copied by, or collected by Theodore Roosevelt Brown, surveyor from Eagle Lake, Maine. The maps range in date from 1917 to 1976. Maine townships covered: Ashland, Eagle Lake, Fort Kent, Frenchville, Grand Isle, Madawaska, New Canada, Portage, St. Agatha, Sinclair, Van Buren, Wallagrass, Winterville, T17R4 and T17R5.
This collection includes originals or copies signed by Brown (or by Brown and others) and 19 unsigned maps. The remaining 17 maps are signed by a variety of map makers and/or signatories: Theodule Albert (#54), Eugene Bouchard (#26) Henry W. Cunningham (#50), John W. Dana (#50), Philip Eastman (#50), John T. Emmerson (#30, 33, 48, 59), Maurice Michaud (#18, 57), H. J, Pelletier (#55), P. R. Picard (#27), A. H. Rheinlander (#56), Earnest T. Savage (#7), E. P. Sinclair (#9, 61), J. R. Sinclair (#1, 20, 27, 59, and 60), William Sankey (#1), and Claude J. Violette (#46).
The Theodore Roosevelt Brown Map Collection provides information about 20th century cartography and cultural geography in the upper St. John Valley.
THEORDORE ROOSEVELT BROWN MAP COLLECTION ITEM-LEVEL INVENTORY
This is an inventory of the Theodore Roosevelt Brown map collection donated to the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes by Katharine B. Brown, widow of surveyor Theodore Roosevelt Brown. Mrs. Brown’s son John delivered eight-eight maps to the Archives in seven map tubes on 19 July 1993. Duplicate maps were culled from the collection in July 1994. The remaining sixty three maps in the collection follow the description format below:
Shelf list number 1. title 2. description (subject/geographic location) 3. date 4. surveyor, signature 5. dimensions 6. physical description 7. physical condition 8. comment (optional)
V4-035 (1/63) 1. Plan of Land on the North Side of Main Street, Between Blockhouse Toad and the Fish River Bridge, Fort Kent, ME 2. Survey map of the north side of Main Street between Blockhouse Road and the First River Bridge, Fort Kent, ME 3. Aug. 20, 1975 4. J. M. & T. R. Brown, copy 5. 26 1/2”W x 17 5/16”L 6. black ink on drafting linen 7. Good condition 8. This is a tracing made from blueprint of an original survey by J. R Sinclair & Wm Sankey, dated June 19 & 20, 1928.
V4-035 (2/63) 1. Resurvey of Lots in Treaty Lot No. 26, In Fort Kent, Aroostook, Co. Maine 2. Survey map of area along Main Street, Fort Kent 3. Oct. 5, 1976 4. T.R. Brown, surveyor 5. 22 5/16”W x 18 ½”L 6. pencil on drafting linen 7. Good condition
V4-035 (2/63) 1. Plan of Property made for A. D. Soucy, Fort Kent, Maine 2. Survey map showing elevation on apartment and trailer lots on south side of Main Street, part of river lot 32 3. Nov. 3, 1967 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 19 3/16”W x 29 2/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (4/63) 1. Plan of Property made For People’s Benevolent Hospital 2. Survey map of US Rt. 1 and Main Street, Fort Kent 3. May 1950 4. Theodore R. Brown, surveyor 5. 35 ¼”W x 21 5/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (5/63) 1. Plan of Property made for Fort Kent Retirement Housing, Inc. 2. Survey map of portions of church and Main Streets, and Fish River in Fort Kent 3. May 16, 1968 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 25 5/16”W x 22 6/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (6/63) 1. Plan of Property showing Parcels Our of Lot “X”, Commissioners Survey of 1843-44 and Lot No. 1, Webber Survey of 1845… 2. Survey map of area along Pleasant Street and Fish River, Fort Kent 3. June 24, 1971 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 32 2/16”W x 22 3/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (7/63) 1. Plan of Lots. Property of Virginia D. Tyler 2. Survey map of parcels in Fort Kent area including Markey Street along Fish River and North Perley Brook 3. June 8, 1942 4. Ernest T. Savage, surveyor 5. 36 5/16”W x 25”L 6. Pencil on drafting linen Good condition
V4-035 (8/63) 1.
V4-035 (9/63) 1. Fort Kent Maine Resurvey, Part of Original Lot 26 and Part of the G. H. Page Estate 2. Survey map of parcels on Main, Elm, and Hall Streets, Fort Kent 3. June 1947 4. E. P. Sinclair and H. K. Sinclair, surveyors 5. 36 ¼”W x 31 ¼”L 6. Pencil on drafting linen 7. Wrinkled on edges and corner, otherwise good condition
V4-035 (10/63) 1.
V4-035 (11/63) 1. Plan of Property in Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, Showing Land and Buildings Owned by Continental Telephone Company of Maine… 2. Survey map of area along West Main Street and road to park, Fort Kent 3. Aug. 26, 1975 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 18”Wx 16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Right side taped together
V4-035 (12/63) 1. Plan of Property, Part of Treaty Lot “T”, Fort Kent, Maine 2. Survey map of parcels on south side of West Main Street 3. Sept. 13, 1967 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 17” W x 22”L 6. Pencil on green line graph paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (13/63) 1. Plan of Property, Fort Kent Maine, Made for State Park and Recreation Commission 2. Survey map of Blockhouse and Fish River area, Fort Kent 3. June 4, 1965 4. T. R. Brown surveyor 5. 22”W x 17 2/16”L 6. Pencil on green line graph paper 7. Fold in center wearing thin, good condition
V4-035 (14/63) 1.
V4-035 (15/63) 1. Plan of Property Part of Original Lot No. 30… 2. Survey map showing Eastern Maine Starch Co. lot on the east side of Pleasant Street 3. Oct. 6, 1971 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 22”W x 19 10/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Fold in map wearing thin, fair condition
V4-035 (16/63) 1.
V4-035 (17/63) 1.
V4-035 (18/63) 1.
V4-035 (19/63) 1. Plot Plan of Shopping Center Owned by Leo. O. Bouchard located in Madwaska, Maine 2. Survey map of parcels along US Rt. 1 and St. Thomas Street and Legion Street and 6th Ave. in Madawaska 3.
V4-035 (20/63) 1. Plan of Subdivision of former Blocks B & C of Isidore Daigle Estate in Madwaska, Maine 2. Dec. 10, 1945 3. J. R. Sinclair, surveyor 4. 17 2/16”W x 8 1/2” L 5. Black and red ink on drafting linen 6. Good condition
V4-035 (21/63) 1. Plot plan of Shopping Center owned by Leo O. Bouchard in Madawaska, Aroostook, Maine 2. Survey map of parcels along 6th Ave., Madawaska 3.
V4-035 (22/63) 1.
V4-035 (23/63) 1. Plan Showing Building Lots as Surveyed for Denis? Albert, Madawaska, ME 2. Survey map of area along US Rt. 1 3. April 20, 1928 4.
V4-035 (24/63) 1.
V4-035 (25/63) 1.
V4-035 (26/63) 1. Plan Showing the Location of Building Lots at Madwaska ME 2. Survey of area along US Rt. 1 and High Street, Madawaska 3. Sept. 15, 1976 4. Eugene Bouchard 5. 11”W x 8 ½”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition 8. Not registered or signed, (similar to MAP 00035/22 and MAP 00035/24)
V4-035 (27/63) 1. Copy of Plan of Lot to be conveyed by Patrick D. Martin to the Boy Scouts in Madawaska, Maine 2. Survey map of portion of 11th Ave., Madawaska 3. Sept. 6, 1957 4. Signed 8/25/47 by J. R. Sinclair and copy 8/5/57 by P. R. Picard 5. 18”W x 12”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition 8. Small in size, but signed and registered
V4-035 (28/63) 1. Plan of Property made for Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, St. David Parish, Madawaska, ME…. 2. Survey of land along US Rt. 1, Madawaska 3. June 3, 1968 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 32”W x 17 2/16”L 6. Pencil on green line graph paper 7. Portion of map is taped together
V4-035 (29/63) 1.
V4-035 (30/63) 1. Plan Showing Building Lots Sub-divided for Mrs. Levite Martin, Madawaska, maine 2. Survey map of area from US Rt. 1 (Main St.) to Mill Street around Bridge Street in Madawaska 3. July 10, 1959 4. T. R. Brown, copy 5. 31 ¼” W x 21 6/16”L 6. Black and red ink on drafting linen 7. Good condition 8. This is a tracing by Brown of an original survey by John T. Emmerson, dated Aug. 16, 1922.
V4-035 (31/63) 1. Plan of Property in Madawaska, Maine. Part of Original Lot 130 2. Survey map of area along Main St., Madawaska 3. June 17, 1959 4. J. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 31 ¼”W x 21 3/16”L 6. Black and red ink on drafting linen 7. Good condition
V4-035 (32/63) 1. Emmerson Plan of Onesime St. Amant Farm 2. Survey of area around 6th Ave. and US Rt. 1 in Madawaska 3. May 1925-1927 4.
V4-035 (33/63) 1. Plan Showing building Lots Sub-divided for Mrs. Levite Martin… 2. Survey map of area from US Rt. 1 (Main St.) to Mill Street around Bridge Street in Madawaska 3. Aug. 16, 1922 4. John Emmerson, surveyor 5. 28 ¼”W x 23 11/16”L 6. Black ink on heavy paper 7. Original 1922 map, torn, yellowed, stained, in delicate condition 8. This is the original used to make the tracing of MAP 00035/30.
V4-035 (34/63) 1. Madawaska, Maine. Plan of Property 2. Court decision of property dispute between Gerard G. Albert and John J. McHenry, near 13th Ave., Madawaska 3. June 6, 1959 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 31 ¼”W x 25 ½”L 6. Black and red pencil on drafting linen 7. Good condition
V4-035 (35/63) 1. Plan of Property showing House Lots on Northeast Side of Main St., Grand Isle, Maine 2. Survey along Highway US 1 and Old Ferry Road, Grand Isle, Maine 3. Aug. 25, 1969 4. Theodore R. Brown, surveyor 5. 20 ¼”W x 13 ¼”L 6. Black ink on drafting linen 7. Good condition
V4-035 (36/63) 1. Part of Twp. 18, R. 5, Frenchville, Aroostook County, Maine 2. Survey map along St. John River, including Island # 11 3.
V4-035 (37/63) 1. Plan of Property, Portage Cemetery, Portage, Maine 2. Survey of parcel along Rt. 11, Portage, Maine 3. April 1, 1971 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 17 3/16”W x 22”L 6. Pencil on green line graph paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (38/63) 1. Plan of Property for Maime Daigle 2. Part of original Lot 2, Twp. 17, R. 4 along thoroughfare in Sinclair 3. Aug. 27, 1957 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 17”W x 21 ¼”L 6. Black ink on drafting linen 7. Good condition
V4-035 (39/63) 1.
V4-035 (40/63) 1. Plan of Property showing land owned by Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland 2. Survey map of land in Wallagrass Plantation 3. Feb. 13, 1973 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 19 14/16” W x 36 ¼”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Fold in center
V4-035 (41/63) 1.
V4-035 (42/63) 1. Plan of Property Showing House Lots on Part of Original Lot No. 23, Bradley Survey of 1844 in Eagle Lake, Aroostook County, Maine 2. Survey map of parcels on main Street Eagle Lake 3. March 15, 1976 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 30”! x 20”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Small tears along edges and some fold creases
V4-035 (43/63) 1.
V4-035 (44/63) 1.
V4-035 (45/63) 1. Plan of Property Part of Original Lot No. 77, Twp. 18, R. 5, St. Agatha, Maine 2. Survey map of parcels on south side of Highway No. 162 3. Jan. 15, 1970 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 20”W x 11”L 6. diazo print 7. Good condition
V4-035 (46/63) 1. Emile G. Michaud, Madawaska, Maine 2. Survey map of subdivision of lot 126-SE ½, Madawaska, Maine 3. 1958 4. Claude J. Violette 5. 25 ¼”W x 15”L 6. diazo print 7. Few small tears
V4-035 (44/63) 1. Plan of Property made for Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, St. David Parish, Madawaska, ME…. 2. Survey of land along US Rt. 1, Madawaska 3. June 3, 1968 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 31”W x 20 14/16”L 6. diazo print 7. Identical to MAP 00035/28, good condition
V4-035 (48/63) 1. Plan showing Building Lots at Madawaska, ME. Thos Daigle Estate 2. Survey map of area on 1st, 2nd & 3rd Streets and US Rt. 1, Madawaska 3. 1924-1927 4. John Emmerson, surveyor 5. 44 ½”W x 20”L 6. diazo print 7. Torn edges, one fold (not in center)
V4-035 (49/63) 1.
V4-035 (50/63) 1. Plan of Lands Set Off to Settlers on the St. John River… 2. Survey map of parcels along St. John River in Frenchville 3.
V4-035 (51/63) 1. Plan of Property made for Knights of Columbus, Council No. 1934, Fort Kent, Maine 2. Survey map of parcel out of Leopold Audibert Farm, Fort Kent 3. July 16, 1969 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 17 2/16”W x 22 2/16”L 6. diazo print 7. Good condition
V4-035 (52/63) 1. Plan of Property made for Northern Maine Medical Center, Fort Kent, Maine, showing new wing and paved area 2. Survey map of Northern Maine Medical Center, Fort Kent 3. July 31, 1975 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 25”W x 21 2/16”L 6. diazo print 7. Bottom edge ripped rather than cut, good condition
V4-035 (53/63) 1. Plan of Property showing Parcels Out of Lot “X”, Commissioners Survey of 1843-44 and Lot No. 1, Webber Survey of 1845… 2. Survey map of area along Pleasant Street and Fish River, Fort Kent 3. June 24, 1971 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 32 2/16”W x 22 3/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition
V4-035 (54/63) 1. Plan of Eagle Lake, Township No. 16, R. 7, W.E.L.S. 2. Survey map of parcels along Eagle Lake and Bangor Aroostook RR 3. August 17, 1917 4. Theodule Albert, register (surveyor?) 5. 24 ¾”W x 30 ½”L 6. diazo print 7. Good condition
V4-035 (55/63) 1. Plan of Lots in the Towns of Frenchville (sic), St Agathe, Fort Kent, Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17, R5 and T-17, R4 2. Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort Kent, Wallagrass, Twp. 17, R 5, and Twp. 17, R 4 3. 1931 4. Drawn by H. J. Pelletier 5. 24”W x 36”L 6. diazo print 7. Folded
V4-035 (56/63) 1. Survey of part of Lot 14, Ashland, Aroostook Co., Maine 2. Survey of Ashland area between Exchange, Mill and School Sts 3. May 3, 1949 4. A. H. Rheinlander 5. 31 ¼”W x 30”L 6. diazo print 7. Fold along right side, some yellowing, still good condition
V4-035 (57/63) 1. Northern States Realty Co. Van Buren, Maine 2. Building layout 3. June 1958 4. Maurice Michaud (L.S.) 5. 14 ½”W x 13 14/16”L 6. Blue print 7. Good condition
V4-035 (58/63) 1. Plan showing East Shore Road in Soldier Pond Village, Wallagrass Plt., Maine 2. Survey map of East Shore Road, Soldier Pond 3. Nov. 27, 1954 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 27”W x 13”L 6. Blue print on drafting linen 7. Two folds, good condition
V4-035 (59/63) 1. Plan Showing Building Lots at Madawaska, ME. Thos Daigle Estate 2. Survey map of area around 4th Ave., Madawaska 3. June 3, 1940 4. J. R. Sinclair, copy 5. 29 ½”W x 22 10/16”L 6. blue print 7. Torn around edges, small hold in body, delicate condition 8. This is a tracing by Sinclair of an original survey made by John T. Emmerson, 1924-1927.
V4-035 (60/63) 1. Plan of Subdivision of “Page Flat” in Fort Kent David D. Daigle 2. Survey map of area along Main Street and St. John River in Fort Kent 3. 1931, revised 4/30/46 and 7/10/46 4. J. R. Sinclair, surveyor 5. 24”W x 28 2/16”L 6. blue print 7. Some edges are taped, some frayed, tear down center has been taped along the back, fair condition
V4-035 (61/63) 1. Fort Kent Maine Resurvey. Part of Original Lot 26 and Part of the G. H. Page Estate 2. Survey map of parcels on Main, Elm, and Hall Streets, Fort Kent 3. June 1947 4. E.P. Sinclair and H. K. Sinclair, surveyors 5. 27”W x 28 ¼”L 6. blue print 7. Folds are beginning to tear 8. Version of Map 00035/9, this map does not include as much information in the notes.
V4-035 (62/63) 1. Plan of Property Part of Original Lot No. 36 and Plan of Property Part of Original lot. NO. 37 2. Survey map along East Main Street, Eagle Lake 3. April 29, 1975 and Sept. 3, 1975 4. T. R. Brown, surveyor 5. 54 5/16”W x 25 2/16”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Folded in center, too large for map case
V4-035 (63/63) 1.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT BROWN MAP COLLECTION TOWNSHIP INDEX
This index of the T. R. Brown map collection is arranged alphabetically by township. The description of each map follows the format below:
1. description – geographic 2. material content and map size 3. Shelf List number and folder location ASHLAND Part of lot 14, between Exchange, Mill and School Streets, Diazo print, 31” x 30” V4-035 (56/63) (F7)
1 TOTAL
EAGLE LAKE Lot 101 on Eagle Lake Tracing paper, 36” x 22” V4-035 (44/63) (F5)
Lost on Main Street Drafting linen, 30” x 22” V4-035 (43/63) (F5)
Part of original lot no. 23, parcels on Main Street Tracing paper, 30” x 20” V4-035 (42/63) (F5)
Lots along Eagle Lake and Bangor Aroostook RR Diazo print, 24” x 31” V4-035 (54/63) (F7)
Lost on East Main Street Tracing paper 54” x 25” V4-035 (62/63) (tube)
Fish River from Eagle Lake to St. John River Blue print, 18’5” x 21” V4-035 (63/63) (tube)
6 TOTAL
FORT KENT Main Street between Blockhouse Road and Fish River bridge Drafting linen, 26” x 17” V4-035 (1/63) (F1)
Lots on Main Street Drafting linen, 22” x 18” V4-035 (2/63) (F1) FORT KENT (cont’d) Elevation of apartment and trailer lots on south side of Main St. Tracing paper, 19” x 29” V4-035 (3/63) (F1)
People’s Benevolent Hospital, lots on US Rt. 1 and Maine Street Tracing paper, 35” x 21” V4-035 (4/63) (F1)
Fort Kent Retirement Housing, lost on Church and Main Streets and Fish River Tracing paper, 25” x 22” V4-035 (5/63) (F1)
Lots on Pleasant Street and Fish River Tracing paper, 32” x 22” V4-035 (6/63) (F1)
Lots on Markey Street, Fish River and North Perley Brook Drafting linen, 36” x 25” V4-035 (7/63) (F1)
Lots on Elm and Main Streets and Meadow Lane Drafting linen, 31” x 28” V4-035 (8/63) (F1)
Lots on Elm, Main and Hall Streets Drafting linen, 36” x 31” V4-035 (9/63) (F1)
Lots on Market Street Tracing paper, 12” x 9” V4-035 (10/63) (F2)
Property of Continental Telephone Co. on West Main Street Diazo print, 18” x 16” V4-035 (11/63) (F2)
Treaty Lot “T” parcels on south side of West Main Street Green line graph paper, 17” x 22” V4-035 (12/63) (F2)
Lost near Blockhouse and Fish River Green line graph paper, 22” x 17” V4-035 (13/63) (F2)
Lots between blockhouse and fire station Green line graph paper, 22” x 17” V4-035 (14/63) (F2)
Eastern Maine Starch Co. lot on east side of Pleasant Street Tracing paper, 22” x 19” V4-035 (15/63) (F2)
FORT KENT (cont’d) Lots on River Street ** Drafting linen, 20” x 21” V4-035 16/63 (F2)
Lots on St. John River Drafting linen, 28” x 23” V4-035 (17/63) (F2)
Division of Leopold Adibert farm Diazo print, 17” x 22” V4-035 (51/63) (F7)
Northern Maine Medical Center new wing and paved area Diazo print, 25” x 21” V4-035 (52/63) (F7)
Lots on Elm and High Streets Diazo print, 21” x 28” V4-035 (53/63) (F7)
Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort Kent, Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17 R5 and T-17 R4 Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (55/63) (F7)
Lots on Main, Elm and Hall Streets Blue print, 27” x 28” V4-035 (61/63) (F8)
Lots on Main Street and St. John River Blue print, 24” x 28” V4-035 (60/63) (F8)
Lots in Fort Kent, Frenchville and St. Agatha Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 49/63) (F6)
Fish river from Eagle Lake to St. John River Blue print, 18’ 5” x 21” V4-035 (63/63) (tube)
25 TOTAL
FRENCHVILLE Lots on St. John River including island # 11 Drafting linen, 22” x 15” V4-035 (36/63) (F5)
Lands set off to settlers on the St. John River
FRENCHVILLE (cont’d.) Diazo print, 39” x 32” V4-035 (50/63) (F6)
Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort Kent, Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17 R5 and T-17 R4 Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (55/63) (F7)
Lots in Fort Kent, Frenchville and St. Agatha Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (49/63) (F6)
4 TOTAL
GRAND ISLE Lots on northeast side of Main Street Drafting linen, 20” x 13” V4-035 (35/63) (F5)
1 TOTAL
MADAWASKA lots between East Main, St. Thomas and Legion Streets and 7th Ave photocopy, 11” x 8” V4-035 (18/63) (F3)
Lots between US Rt. 1, St Thomas and Legion Streets and 6th Ave Photocopy, 11” x 8” V4-035 (19/63) (F3)
Lots on Main and Church Streets Drafting linen, 17” x 8” V4-035 (20/63) (F3)
Lots on 6th Ave Drafting linen, 11” x 9” V4-035 (21/63) (F3)
Lots on 6th Ave Tracing paper, 18” x 12” V4-035 (22/63) (F3)
Lots on US Rt. 1 Drafting linen, 22” x 15” V4-035 (23/63) (F3)
Lots on East Main, St. Thomas and Legion Streets and 7th Ave Green line graph paper, 22” x 17” V4-035 (24/63) (F3)
MADAWASKA (cont’d.)
Lots on Legion Street and 7th Ave Tracing paper, 23” x 20” V4-035 (25/63) (F3)
Lots on US Rt.1 and High Street Tracing paper, 11” x 8” V4-035 (26/63) (F4)
Lot conveyed to Boy scouts, 11th Ave Green line graph paper, 18” x 12” V4-035 (27/63) (F4)
Property of St. David Parish, lots on US Rt. 1 Green line graph paper, 32” x 17” V4-035 (28/63) (F4)
Lot on 13th Ave ** Green line graph paper, 22” x 17” V4-035 (29/63) (F4)
Lots along US Rt. 1 and Mill Street Drafting linen, 31” x 21” V4-035 (30/63) (F4)
Original lot 130 on Main Street Drafting linen, 31” x 21” V4-035 (31/63) (F4)
Lots on 6th Ave and US Rt. 1 Tracing paper, 30” x 22” V4-035 (32/63) (F4)
Lots near US Rt. 1, Mill and Bridge Streets Heavy paper, 18” x 23” V4-035 (33/63) (F4)
Lots on 13th Ave Drafting linen, 31” x 25” V4-035 (34/63) (F4)
Subdivision of lot 126-SE1/2 Diazo print, 25” x 15” V4-035 (46/63) (F6)
St. David Parish, lots on US Rt. 1 Diazo print, 31” x 20” V4-035 (47/63) (F6)
Lots on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Ave and US Rt. 1 Diazo print, 44” x 20” V4-035 (48/63) (F6)
MADAWASKA (cont’d) Lots on 4th Ave Blue print, 29” x 22” V4-035 (59/63) (F8)
21 TOTAL
NEW CANADA Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort kent, Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17 R5 and T-17 R4 Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (55/63) (F7)
1 TOTAL
PORTAGE Portage cemetery, Rt. 11 Green line graph paper, 17” x 22” V4-035 (37/63) (F5)
1 TOTAL
ST. AGATHA Original lot no. 77, south side of Highway 162 Diazo print, 20” x 11” V4-035 (45/63 (F6)
Lots in Fort Kent, Frenchville and St. Agatha Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (49/63) (F6)
Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort Kent Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17 R5 and T-17 R4 Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (55/63) (F7)
3 TOTAL
SINCLAIR Original lot no. 4 on thoroughfare Drafting linen, 17” x 21” V4-035 (38/63) (F5)
Lots on thoroughfare and Long Lake Tracing paper, 22” x 18” V4-035 39/63) (F5)
2 TOTAL
VAN BUREN Lots of Main Street Blue print, 14” x 13” V4-035 (57/63) (F8)
1 TOTAL
WALLAGRASS Land owned by Roman Catholic Bishop in Wallagrass Plt. Tracing paper, 19” x 36” V4-035 (40/63) (F5)
Lots on East Shore Road Blue print, 27” x 13” V4-035 (58/63) (F8)
Plan of lots in Frenchville, St. Agatha, Fort Kent, Wallagrass, New Canada, T-17 R5 and T-17 R4 Diazo print, 24” x 36” V4-035 (55/63) (F7)
3 TOTAL
WINTERVILLE Northern end of St. Froid Lake Tracing paper 33” x 20” V4-035 (41/63) (F5)
1 TOTAL
**indicates location of survey area is questionable
History of the Arrangement and Storage of this Collection. 88 maps were delivered to the Archives by Theodore Brown’s son, John Brown. They arrived in seven non-archival cardboard tubes. In the process of making a preliminary inventory of the maps in their original order, it became clear that a number of the maps were duplicates. After querying colleagues on the subject of handling of duplicate maps, Archives staff determined that it was appropriate to cull out identical copies. On 20 November, 1993, the Archives director phoned and received permission from the collection donor to discard or otherwise dispose of duplicate maps. The following duplicate maps were culled from the collection (numbering corresponds to tube/item as listed in the original inventory): 1/3, ¼ 1/5 (diazo duplicates of 1/1) 2/12 through 2/21 (diazo duplicates of 2/10) 3/47 (diazo duplicate of 4/46) 4/52 (diazo duplicate of 4/50) 4/52 (diazo duplicate of 4/55) 4/58, 4/59 (diazo duplicates of 4/57) 5/65 (diazo duplicate of 4/48) 5/68 (diazo duplicate of 5/67) 5/69, 5/70, 5/71 (diazo duplicates of 5/60) 5/72 (diazo duplicate of 4/50) 7/77 (duplicate of 7/76) Total number of maps culled: 25
Archives staff determined in collaboration with the collection donor that the original order of the maps no longer existed at the time of their donation to the Archives. Consequently, the Archives staff decided to revise the ordering of the remaining 63 maps.
Because the collection includes a variety of paper types requiring different storage treatments, the staff decided to make a primary sort of the maps based on their physical support. This sort resulted in three groups: 46 maps on relatively stable supports (including 2 maps too large fort the map case), 12 diazo prints, and 5 blueprints. Stable maps are in folders 1-5, the diazo maps are in folders 6-7, the blueprints are in folder 8, and the oversize maps are stored in map tubes.
Staff chose as a secondary ordering principles geographical divisions, using Maine’s official Standard and Geographic Code as a general guide. (This code appears on page 4 of the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer, 1989 printing). Each of the three groups of maps is arranged by the geographical location. Maps including more than one civil division are classified by the township covering the largest area on the map.
Finally, staff arranged maps within each folder from smallest on top to largest on bottom. This ordering is intended to help minimize handling of the maps and to optimize the visibility of shelf list numbers. Sorting by size necessarily resulted in occasional minor disturbances of the geographical sort within folders.