New Gloucester

New Gloucester
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Library
Location in Maine
New Gloucester
Basic data
Foundation :	March 8, 1794
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Cumberland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 57 ′  N , 70 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′  N , 70 ° 18 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,542 (as of 2010)
Population density :	45.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	123.8 km 2  (approx. 48 mi 2 ) of which 122.0 km 2  (approx. 47 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	110 m
Postal code :	04260
FIPS :	23-48820
GNIS ID :	00582619
Website :	www.newgloucester.com

New Gloucester is a town in Cumberland County in the state of Maine in the United States . New Gloucester is in the northern part of Cumberland County. In 2010, 5542 people lived there in 2295 households on an area of ​​123.8 km². Nearby is the Shaker Community of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village .

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , the place has a total area of ​​123.8 km², of which 122.0 km² is land and 1.8 km² is water.

Geographical location

New Gloucester is in the northern part of Cumberland County. The surface of the area is only slightly hilly, the highest point is the 157 m high Bald Hill in the northern part of the town. The land is of good quality as arable land and the highlands are generally loamy. There is a mineral spring in the town, Centennial Spring . To the north is Lily Pond and to the northwest is Sabbathday Lake . The Royal River and Harris Brook flow through New Gloucester.

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Poland in Androscoggin County , 7.1 mi
• Northeast: Auburn , Androscoggin County, 4.3 mi
• East: Durham , Androscoggin County, 11.9 mi
• Southeast: Pownal , 12.8 km
• South: North Yarmouth , 8.0 km
• West: Gray , 8.2 km
• West: Raymond , 12 miles

City structure

There are several settlement areas in New Gloucester: Cobbs Bridge , Cobb's Station (also Cobb's Bridge, former railway station), Foggs Corner (Foggs Corners) , Intervale , Lower Gloucester , New Gloucester , Rowes (also Rowe, former railway station), Sabbathday Lake , Shaker Village , Upper Gloucester , West Gloucester , Whites Corner and Woodman Station .

climate

The mean mean temperature in New Gloucester ranges from −6.1 ° C (21 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA; the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Town House

New Gloucester was granted as a grant to 60 Gloucester residents in 1735 . These designated the area as "New Gloucester". The land was divided into 63 equal parts. 60 for the residents, the other three parts were given to the priest, the priest's helpers and the school. A number of families built a dozen log cabins on Harris Hill, as well as a sawmill nearby. The conflict in the Seven Years War also affected New Gloucester and the settlement was abandoned.

In 1753, some of the residents returned and built a log cabin southwest of the meeting house on the lower side of the street. For six years it served as a residence, fortress and church. The elongated holes in the walls were intended for the guns, but also served as windows. The destroyed mills and huts were rebuilt. In 1756 a new road was built from Walnut Hill to North Yarmouth and the first grist mill was built in 1758.

Colonel Isaac Parsons and John Woodman came to New Gloucester in 1761. The construction of a schoolhouse and the arrival of the first schoolmaster and priest took place in 1764. The first meeting house was built in 1770 and stood until 1838. It was a unique building. It had a square tower on the southwest end and a porch on the other side. 26 windows in two rows let light through their 8 to 10 panes. Galleries on three sides rose to the level of the preacher's eyes when he was standing in the high pulpit under the threatening soundboard. Guards with long staffs kept an eye out for sleepers and sometimes the memory with the knobbed end was anything but gentle. Holes in the floor served as spittoons and provided adequate ventilation. Seats swiveled on their hinges during prayer to make room for the ladies' wide skirts. The town's powder store was kept in small cupboards under the pulpit, ready to be distributed to members of the congregation on Sundays and in their homes on secular days in the event of an Indian attack. The pulpit wasn't exactly the driest place in town, but it was the hottest when there was danger.

The town was founded in 1794. From 1795 to the formation of Oxford County in 1805, it was held here in alternation with Portland court. New Gloucester became one of the most important cities in the region at an early stage. Wood was processed in the town, carriages, boots and shoes were made.

Shaker Village around 1920

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village was founded in 1783 by the United Society of True Believers under the name Thompson's Pond Plantation . Today this settlement is the last of what was previously nineteen religious communities between Maine and Florida to be operated by the Shaker. It consists of 18 homes on 1.800 acre (7.3 km² ) land.

Population development

Census Results - Town of New Gloucester, Maine
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1358
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1378	1649	1658	1682	1946	1848	1654	1496	1382	1234
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1162	1228	1384	1866	2334	2628	3047	2811	3180	3916
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4803	5542

Culture and sights

Buildings

Shaker Village

Two districts and two buildings are listed and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

as a district

• New Gloucester Historic District , incorporated in 1974, Register No. 74000162
• Shaker Village , recorded in 1974, register no. 74000318

further structures

• Intervale Farm , recorded 2004, register no. 03001407
• Universalist Meeting House , recorded in 1988, register no. 88000887

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Interstate 95 runs north-south through New Gloucester. US Highway 202 runs parallel to the interstate . From this, Maine State Route 231 branches off in a southerly direction . The Maine State Route 26 runs through the northwest of the Town. New Gloucester is on the Maine Central Railroad .

Public facilities

There are no medical facilities in New Gloucester. Hospitals are in Portland and Auburn.

New Gloucester has its own library. The New Gloucester Public Library is located on Intervale Road in New Gloucester.

education

New Gloucester is part of Maine School Administrative District 15 along with Gray.

The following schools are available in the district:

• Gray-New Gloucester High School in Gray (Grades 9-12)
• Gray-New Gloucester Middle School in Gray (Grades 5 through 8)
• Burchard A. Dunn Elementary School in New Gloucester (Pre-Kindergarten and Grades 3-4)
• James W. Russell School in Gray (Kindergarten through Grade 2)
• Memorial Elementary School in New Gloucester (Kindergarten through Grade 2)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Samuel C. Fessenden (1815–1882), politician
• GW Ingersoll (1803-1860), politician and Maine Attorney General
• Sara Plummer Lemmon (1836–1923), botanist
• Guy H. Sturgis (1877–1951), politician and Maine Attorney General

Web links

Commons : New Gloucester, Maine  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Community website
• New Gloucester administrative records on the official Maine state websites

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Gloucester in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 17, 2018
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ↑ Bald Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ^ New Gloucester, Cumberland County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved March 17, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} New Gloucester, Maine (ME 04260) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on March 17, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of New Gloucester, Maine From A Gazetteer of the State of Maine by Geo. J. Varney edited by BB Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston 1886
8. ↑ Homepage of the Shaker Museum ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 8, 2015. 
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ New Gloucester Public Library. In: newgloucesterlibrary.org. Retrieved March 17, 2018 . 
11. ^ Schools in Gray on the homepage of twon Gray