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History · Baring plantation

Baring plantation’s post office opened in 1827, and 36% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1929 on and the census since 1830.

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How Baring plantation began

When was Baring plantation founded?

1827

The Baring plantation post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Baring (1827), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 159 in 18302020 census: 201199 years
Founding year: the first Baring plantation post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Baring plantation’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Baring plantation are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 409 in 1860; 201 people lived here in 2020.Deep rootsA post office since 1827: 199 years of Baring plantation.
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Start Baring plantation’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Baring plantation’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Baring plantation, census by census

01002003004001850190019502000Peak: 409

Peaked at 409 in 1860; 201 people lived here in 2020.

19 censuses, 1830–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Baring plantation’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

Baring plantation, 1827 to 1966

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1827Post officeThe Baring post office opens
  3. 1860CensusPopulation peaks at 409
  4. 20th century
  5. 1929On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1966Post officeThe Baring post office closes
The story so far

Baring plantation, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Baring plantation yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Baring Plantation is a plantation in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 201 at the 2020 census. The plantation is named for Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, the British negotiator of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty which ended the Aroostook War in 1838–1839.

Its first post office opened in 1827. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 251 to 201 (-20%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Baring plantation on the map, 1929 to 1987

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Baring plantation. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Baring plantation on the 1929 USGS mapBaring plantation on the 1932 USGS mapBaring plantation on the 1987 USGS map1929Calais sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Baring plantation.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Another post office, Baring, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Baring

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

BaileyvilleIts storyBCalais18 historic placesA+MeddybempsIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCharlotte1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Baring plantation’s history

What year was Baring plantation founded?

The Baring plantation post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.