OLD TOWN
, a city of Penobscot county, Maine, U.S.A., on the Penobscot river, about 12 M
.
N.E. of Bangor
.
Pop
.
(1890) 5312; (1900) 5763 (1247 foreign- born); (1910) 6317
.
It is served by the Maine Central and the Bangor & Aroostook railways, and by an electric line connecting with Bangor
.
The city proper is on an island ( Marsh, or Old Town Island), but considerable territory on the W. bank of the river is included
within the municipal limits
.
The manufacture of lumber is lumber, &c
.
The vicinity was settled in 1804, and this was the principal industry of the city
.
On Indian Island (opposite the first township organized (18o8), being then coextensive with the city) is the principal settlement of the Penobscot Indians, the county
.
Olean Creek was called Ischue (or Ischua); then an Abnaki tribe, now wards of the state
.
The abbe See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Olean was suggested, possibly in reference to the oil-springs in Pierre Thury was sent here from Quebec about 1687 and built the vicinity
.
The village was officially called See also: - HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
for a a See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
in 1688-1689; in 1705 the mission passed under the See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, but Olean was the name given to the post- See also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
in 1817, control of the Jesuits
.
The first See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
settler in the vicinity and Olean Point was the popular local name
.
In 1909 several seems to have been John Marsh, who came about 1774, and who suburbs, including the village of North Olean (pop. in 1905, bought the island now known as Marsh Island
.
From 18o6 to 1761), were annexed to Olean, considerably increasing its area 1840, when it was incorporated as a separate township, Old and population
.
Town was a part of Orono
.
In 1891 it was chartered as a city
.
See History of Cattaraugus County, New York ( Philadelphia, 1879)
.
One of the oldest railways in the United States, and the first in OLEANDER, the common name for the shrub known to
Maine, was completed to Old Town from Bangor in 1836. botanists as Nerium Oleander
.
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