Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 29% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: old-book passages.
More historic than 29% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Kenduskeag is more historic than 29% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Maine towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Maine town has 15.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Kenduskeag’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (10% of Maine towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Kenduskeag’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Kenduskeag yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Kenduskeag is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,346 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,348 in 2010, 1,346 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Kenduskeag, cut from the printed page as they were published.
From the northerly line of the town, and running in a southerly direction to Kenduskeag, are five main roads, viz : From Exeter, nearly on the line between Corinth (Ohio Settlement) and Levant, to Kenduskeag; from Exeter through the Eddy and Skinner settlements to Kenduskeag; from Charleston through East Corinth to Kenduskeag (between these two last roads runs the Kenduskeag Stream); from Charleston through East Ridge Set-
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Holland's survey, that No. ii, which was the Bridge Point lot, was assigned to Robert Lapish and others, and No. 70, which was that comme'ncing a little below the Kenduskeag Bridge, and extending about a mile up on the westerly side of the stream, was assigned to William Hammond. The Dunning lot (10) adjoined 70, and embraced the westerly bank of the stream below it, and of the river to the Dennet lot (9), which embraced what
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Kenduskeag is more historic than 29% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
14% of Kenduskeag’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.4 points), against a typical 19% for a Maine town; the median home was built in 1992.
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).
From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.