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. <no title> 2. Survey map of Fort Kent area including Elm and Main Streets and meadow Lane 3. 3. <no date? 4. <no signature> 5. 31”W x 28 9/16”L 6. Pencil on drafting linen 7. Fold creases, coffee stains and “pen testing” corner 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. <no title> 2. Survey map of area along Market Street, Fort Kent 3. <no date> 4. <no signature> 5. 12”W x 9”L 6. Pencil on tracing paper 7. Good condition 8. Not a registered map 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. <no title> 2. Survey of area between Blockhouse and Fire Station, Fort Kent 3. <no date> 4. <no signature> 5. 22” W x 17 2/16” L 6. Pencil on green line graph paper 7.