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History · Carroll plantation

Carroll plantation’s post office opened in 1845, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 2000.

1845first post office
0on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Carroll plantation began

When was Carroll plantation founded?

1845

The Carroll plantation post office opened in 1845, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Carroll (1845), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 144 in 20002020 census: 138181 years
Founding year: the first Carroll plantation post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Carroll 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 Carroll plantation are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18933 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1988. Watch Carroll plantation change.Deep rootsA post office since 1845: 181 years of Carroll plantation.
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Start Carroll plantation’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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On the map

Carroll plantation on the map, 1893 to 1988

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

Carroll plantation on the 1893 USGS mapCarroll plantation on the 1931 USGS mapCarroll plantation on the 1988 USGS map1893Springfield 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 Carroll plantation.

Timeline

Carroll plantation, 1845 to 1974

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1845Post officeThe Carroll post office opens
  3. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 20th century
  5. 1974Post officeThe Carroll post office closes
The story so far

Carroll plantation, in brief

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

Carroll Plantation is a plantation in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The plantation was named for Daniel Carroll, a signatory of the United States Constitution. It is located along Maine State Route 6 (Main Road) near its intersection with State Route 170. The population was 138 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1845. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 153 to 138 (-10%).

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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People over time

Carroll plantation, census by census

010020002020Peak: 153

Between 138 and 153 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Carroll

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.

Springfield1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLakevilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Carroll plantation’s history

What year was Carroll plantation founded?

The Carroll plantation post office opened in 1845, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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.