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History · Great Pond

Great Pond’s post office opened in 1852, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Free Baptist Church of Great Pond, The. Below: maps from 1932 on and the census since 1960.

1852first post office
1on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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How Great Pond began

When was Great Pond founded?

1852

The Great Pond post office opened in 1852, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 58 in 19602020 census: 61174 years
Founding year: the first Great Pond post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Great Pond’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 Great Pond are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Great Pond, in brief

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

Great Pond is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 61 at the 2020 census. Gleason Archer Sr. (1880–1966), the founder and first president of Suffolk University in Boston, was born in Great Pond. He was also the author of many legal textbooks.

Its first post office opened in 1852. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 58 to 61 (+5%).

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

Timeline

Great Pond, 1852 to 1943

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1852Post officeThe Great Pond post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1932On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1943Post officeThe Great Pond post office closes
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On the map

Great Pond on the map, 1932 to 1988

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

Great Pond on the 1932 USGS mapGreat Pond on the 1957 USGS mapGreat Pond on the 1988 USGS map1932Great Pond 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 Great Pond.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Great Pond

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

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first listed
2012
Free Baptist Church of Great Pond, The
Free Baptist Church of Great Pond, The
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Victorian1
All 1 listings
Free Baptist Church of Great Pond, TheBuilding · listed 2012

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

People over time

Great Pond, census by census

01960198020002020Peak: 61

Between 43 and 61 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Great Pond had its own post office from 1852 to 1943.

Great Pond
1852–1943
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Dow Pines
1cemetery inside Great Pond
Great Pond

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.

Aurora1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Great Pond’s history

What year was Great Pond founded?

The Great Pond post office opened in 1852, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Great Pond?

One place: the Free Baptist Church of Great Pond, The (listed 2012).

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 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.