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History · St. John plantation

St. John plantation’s post office opened in 1910, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Roosevelt School and the St. John Catholic Church. Below: maps from 1928 on and the census since 1870.

1910first post office
2on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How St. John plantation began

When was St. John plantation founded?

1910

The St. John plantation post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Wheelock (1902) and Saint John (1910), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 127 in 18702020 census: 263116 years
Founding year: the first St. John plantation post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about St. John 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 St. John plantation are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s St. John plantation, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Boom and bustPeaked at 628 in 1940; 263 people lived here in 2020.
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Start St. John plantation’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. John 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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Wheelock
1902–1927
Saint John
1910–1926
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Burnt MillSaint JohnWheelock
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside St. John plantation
Saint John Baptist ChurchSaint John Catholic

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

People over time

St. John plantation, census by census

010020030040050060070018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 628

Peaked at 628 in 1940; 263 people lived here in 2020.

16 censuses, 1870–2020.

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

The story so far

St. John plantation, in brief

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

St. John Plantation or Saint John Plantation (French: Plantation de Saint-Jean) is a plantation in Aroostook County, Maine, United States, on the banks of the Saint John River. The population was 263 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1910. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 267 in 2010, 263 in 2020.

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

Timeline

St. John plantation, 1902 to 1940

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Wheelock post office opens
  3. 1910Post officeThe Saint John post office opens
  4. 1926Post officeThe Saint John post office closes
  5. 1927Post officeThe Wheelock post office closes
  6. 1928On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 628
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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On the map

St. John plantation on the map, 1928 to 1985

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

St. John plantation on the 1928 USGS mapSt. John plantation on the 1931 USGS mapSt. John plantation on the 1975 USGS mapSt. John plantation on the 1985 USGS map1928Eagle Lake 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 St. John plantation.

On the National Register

2 historic places in St. John plantation

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

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Roosevelt School
Roosevelt SchoolSt. John Catholic Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival2
All 2 listings
Roosevelt SchoolBuilding · listed 1992St. John Catholic ChurchBuilding · listed 2003

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

Famous people

Famous people close to St. John plantation

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

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Ellis PaulAmerican singer-songwriter and musician · b. 1965
Troy Dale JacksonAmerican politician · b. 1968
Clifford McIntireAmerican politician · b. 1908
Roland WhiteAmerican bluegrass musician · b. 1938
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Lucy Hayward BarkerAmerican painter · b. 1872
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John Lewis MartinAmerican politician, Maine · b. 1941
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

St. FrancisIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWallagrass1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about St. John plantation’s history

What year was St. John plantation founded?

The St. John plantation post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in St. John plantation?

Two places: the Roosevelt School (listed 1992) and the St. John Catholic Church (2003).

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 (2), 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.