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From Wikipedia’s history of Milltown.
Milltown was laid out in 1839. The community was named from the presence of a mill.
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Milltown’s post office opened in 1831, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1870.
1831first post office
0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How Milltown began
When was Milltown founded?
1831
The Milltown post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 87 in 18702020 census: 790195 years
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What they wrote about Milltown in 1875
Passages that mention Milltown, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Annals of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick1875 · page 198Read the page →
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still used ; another at Bog Brook, still used ; another quite large one on. the land south of B. M. Flint's residence, long since abandoned and the site occupied by a school-house ; and another in the village of Milltown, also long ago abandoned. About 1840, the town purchased ten acres of land on the hill near South Milltown St., and consecrated it as the Calais Cemetery.
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Annals of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick1875 · page 166Read the page →
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The lower bridge at Milltown and the Union Mills bridge were built about thirty years ago, mainly for the accommodation of the mill owners in these localities.
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By decade
Milltown, decade by decade
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Milltown on the map, 1948 to 1980
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Milltown. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1948Milltown sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Milltown.
People over time
Milltown, census by census
Between 87 and 1,006 people in every census since 1870.
14 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Milltown’s Wikipedia page.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Milltown’s history
What year was Milltown founded?
The Milltown post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.