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VanBurenME BrannSchoolhousePhoto: Todd Edgard (NPS employee) · Public domain
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History · Cyr plantation

16% of Cyr plantation’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Governor Brann School. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1931 on, and the census since 1870.

1on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Cyr plantation’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Cyr 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 writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 558 in 1880; 78 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Cyr plantation’s homes were built before 1954.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cyr 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.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewVanBurenME BrannSchoolhouse: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Cyr plantation, census by census

010020030040050060018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 558

Peaked at 558 in 1880; 78 people lived here in 2020.

16 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

The story

How Cyr plantation came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cyr plantation.

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Early settlers moved to what would become Cyr Plantation in the mid-1800s, then known as Township Letter L. Around that time, a road was built between the Aroostook River and Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada (which today stretches between Caribou, Maine, and Hamlin, Maine). Many early inhabitants obtained grants to lots near the road and Hammond Brook to farm the land. The plantation was formally organized on March 12, 1870, and named after the many Cyrs in the area, including Andre Cyr and his father Christoper, the first Cyrs in Cyr Plantation.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Cyr plantation, decade by decade

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VanBurenME BrannSchoolhouseDate?VanBurenME BrannSchoolhouse
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MEMap-location-of-Cyr Plantation2017MEMap-location-of-Cyr Plantation
On the map

Cyr plantation on the map, 1931 to 1986

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

Cyr plantation on the 1931 USGS mapCyr plantation on the 1953 USGS mapCyr plantation on the 1975 USGS mapCyr plantation on the 1986 USGS map1931Stockholm 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 Cyr plantation.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

VanBurenME BrannSchoolhouse
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cyr plantation’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Cyr plantation

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1993
Governor Brann School
Governor Brann School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Bungalow1
Craftsman1
Governor Brann SchoolBungalow

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Cyr plantation

Nobody well known was born in Cyr plantation itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Susan CollinsUnited States Senator from Maine since 1997 · b. 1952
Jessica MeirAmerican and Swedish astronaut · b. 1977
John CrowleyAmerican writer of speculative fiction · b. 1942
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Lynn FlewellingAmerican writer · b. 1958
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Jack SepkoskiAmerican paleontologist · b. 1948
Ellis PaulAmerican singer-songwriter and musician · b. 1965
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hamlin1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townVan Buren3 historic placesB+

Questions about Cyr plantation’s history

What is on the National Register in Cyr plantation?

One place: the Governor Brann School (listed 1993).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.