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History · Whiting

Whiting’s post office opened in 1826, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Union Meeting House.

1826first post office
1on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How Whiting began

When was Whiting founded?

1826

The Whiting post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Orangetown (1818), Holme's Bay (1848) and Halls Mills (1915), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 482200 years
Founding year: the first Whiting post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Whiting’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 Whiting are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Whiting, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1826: 200 years of Whiting.
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Start Whiting’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Whiting’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

Whiting’s post office has been open since 1826. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Orangetown
1818–1826
Whiting
1826–today
Holme's Bay
1848–1852
Halls Mills
1915–1918
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Halls Mills
1cemetery inside Whiting
Mary Look

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

Timeline

Whiting, 1818 to 1852

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1818Post officeThe Orangetown post office opens
  3. 1826Post officeThe Orangetown post office closes
  4. 1826Post officeThe Whiting post office opens
  5. 1836BuiltUnion Meeting House is built
  6. 1848Post officeThe Holme's Bay post office opens
  7. 1852Post officeThe Holme's Bay post office closes
The story so far

Whiting, in brief

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

Whiting is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Tate Whiting, an early settler. The population was 482 at the 2020 census. The town was originally known as Orangetown.

Its first post office opened in 1826. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 487 in 2010, 482 in 2020.

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

By decade

Whiting, decade by decade

Today3 recent
WhitingME CommunityChurch2013WhitingME CommunityChurchMoon Hill Farm2010Moon Hill FarmUS1Whiting2008US1Whiting
On the National Register

1 historic place in Whiting

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2014
Union Meeting House
Union Meeting House, built 1836
Buildings
Union Meeting HouseBuilt 1836

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Whiting

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

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Laurence TrimbleAmerican silent film actor, writer and director · b. 1885
Andrea GibsonAmerican poet and activist · b. 1975
George H. MosesAmerican politician · b. 1869
Styles BridgesAmerican politician · b. 1898
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott SpoffordAmerican author · b. 1835
Otis Tufton MasonAmerican ethnologist · b. 1838
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Cutler1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Whiting’s history

What year was Whiting founded?

The Whiting post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Whiting?

One place: the Union Meeting House (listed 2014).

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 (3), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.