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Old 08-28-2009, 12:58 PM
 
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Many went west. But MANY moved north to the semi-frontier of the Aroostook in the late 1800s/early 1900s!
Check your history. There were already 60,000 people in Aroostook County by 1900. More than many other counties in Maine at that time so it was far from a frontier back then. It was a populous area with a robust lumbering community. Being as there are slightly more than 70,000 in Aroostook county some 110 years later I think it's safe to say the exodus affected "The County" as much as it did the rest of Maine after the trees were gone.
In fact the last part of the 20th century has not been all that kind to "The County". A lack of jobs and industry has caused a second exodus as Aroostook County has lost over 20,000 people since 1982.

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Old 08-28-2009, 01:13 PM
 
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Check your history. There were already 60,000 people in Aroostook County by 1900. More than many other counties in Maine at that time so it was far from a frontier back then. It was a populous area with a robust lumbering community. Being as there are slightly more than 70,000 in Aroostook county some 110 years later I think it's safe to say the exodus affected "The County" as much as it did the rest of Maine after the trees were gone.
In fact the last part of the 20th century has not been all that kind to "The County". A lack of jobs and industry has caused a second exodus as Aroostook County has lost over 20,000 people since 1982.
Yes, some of my ancestors moved to Aroostook County in 1830 (they were originally from Edgecomb, Maine...they had been in Maine for a few generations), then they left in 1860 for Minnesota.
 
Old 08-28-2009, 04:41 PM
 
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Many went west. But MANY moved north to the semi-frontier of the Aroostook in the late 1800s/early 1900s!
Maine lost 2/3 of it's population because all those folks moved to Aroostook?

Wouldn't they still be in Maine then?
 
Old 08-28-2009, 09:24 PM
 
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Maine lost 2/3 of it's population because all those folks moved to Aroostook?

Wouldn't they still be in Maine then?
Good point!!!
 
Old 08-29-2009, 05:49 AM
 
Location: Bangor Maine
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If you prefer mild winters I think you should head for CT, MA or RI. Our winters here continue into April. If you want to live by ocean or lake you will pay way more than $200,000.
 
Old 08-29-2009, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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If you prefer mild winters I think you should head for CT, MA or RI. Our winters here continue into April. If you want to live by ocean or lake you will pay way more than $200,000.
A person can pay a lot less than that for waterfrontage.
 
Old 08-30-2009, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Check your history. There were already 60,000 people in Aroostook County by 1900. More than many other counties in Maine at that time so it was far from a frontier back then. It was a populous area with a robust lumbering community. Being as there are slightly more than 70,000 in Aroostook county some 110 years later I think it's safe to say the exodus affected "The County" as much as it did the rest of Maine after the trees were gone.
In fact the last part of the 20th century has not been all that kind to "The County". A lack of jobs and industry has caused a second exodus as Aroostook County has lost over 20,000 people since 1982.
I really don't need to check my history, thanks. I have been studying my home for 35 years.
Aroostook's boom began in the late 1800s with the late arrival of the railroad. Its economy then went into overdrive. People from all over Maine, New Brunswick, New England and Europe absolutely flooded the area between 1880 and 1940 (as I said). This included all of my ancestors. Its population doubled during this time.
It had a brief Super Boom during WWII, with the massive Presque Isle Air Base. Then it remained pretty stable for 20-25 years.
Then it started to decline, economically and population wise. The closure of Loring Air Force Base in the early 1990s removed over 10,000 more people in a flash.
By the late 1990s, it population was indeed roughly what it was 100 years earlier (65,00-70,000).
We are now in the "fifth era" of the County, and its story is being written as we speak. So far so good.
(Heck nobody thought there would be any one here at all to "clean up the tumbleweeds" in 2009!)

By the way, the post about few trees being left in Maine in the last century, or today............the County never got that way.
 
Old 08-30-2009, 11:58 AM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Yes, some of my ancestors moved to Aroostook County in 1830 (they were originally from Edgecomb, Maine...they had been in Maine for a few generations), then they left in 1860 for Minnesota.
Interesting! There is a gap in our local history, involving folks like your family. I have always thought it was a bit ironic and sad that some folks moved here to the rugged frontier of Maine in 1840/1850/1860, and found it too hard (can't blame them), and moved elsewhere. I say that because, of course, the Boom started a few years later!!
But how could they have known?
 
Old 08-30-2009, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Maine lost 2/3 of it's population because all those folks moved to Aroostook?

Wouldn't they still be in Maine then?
I didnt' say that. Just said some chose to move north, rather than west.
Some stayed up here, some found it too hard and kept moving (California was calling in 1860s/1870/1880............."Go West Young Man!").
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