Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Eastbrook Baptist Church and Eastbrook Town House. Below: maps from 1911 on and the census since 1830.
The Eastbrook post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eastbrook’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1880 and 1960, then more than doubled.
20 censuses, 1830–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eastbrook’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eastbrook. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Eastbrook.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eastbrook yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Eastbrook is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 424 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1875. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 423 in 2010, 424 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Eastbrook itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Eastbrook had its own post office from 1875 to 1905.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Eastbrook post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Eastbrook Baptist Church and Eastbrook Town House (listed 1978).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
