OLD TOWN

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OLD TOWN , a city of

Penobscot

PENOBSCOT

county, Maine, U.S.A., on the

Penobscot

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

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

of the Penobscot Indians, the county. Olean Creek was called Ischue (or Ischua); then an Abnaki tribe, now wards of the state. The abbe Louis 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

VILLAGE

was officially called Hamilton for a a church in 1688-1689; in 1705 the mission passed under the time, but Olean was the name given to the post-office in 1817,

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of the

Jesuits

JESUITS

. The first white 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

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

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

(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. It is a native of the Mediterranean

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