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Located four miles south of Rockland. Indian name, "Wessaweskeag," afterward contracted to "Weskeag," and afterward to "Keag." First settled 1776, by Elisha Snow, from Harpswell, John Matthews, of Plainfield, Connecticut, and Stephen Peabody, of Middleton, Massachusetts, who settled at Owl's Head. Set off from Thomaston, and incorporated July 28, 1848.
There were two stages daily from Clark Island and Spruce Head via. South Thomaston to Rockland, and two stages from South Thomaston to Rockland.
| - Maine Register (1903) |
The area of present day South Thomaston along the St. George River was actually settled before the year 1776. This area was first settled in 1765 by Samuel Brown and Oliver Robbins. South Thomaston is credited with being first settled in 1776, because the area on the northeastern side of the Wessaweskeag River is what was considered to be South Thomaston during that time.
Owl's Head was set off from South Thomaston by act of legislature, April 9, 1921.
Population of South Thomaston in 1990 was 1,227 and in 2000 was 1,416.
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The building of the Hix Memorial was the outgrowth of a patriotic movement among the citizens of South Thomaston to properly honor their hero dead. A Memorial Association was formed. The name "Hix Memorial" was given it in honor of Corporal Oscar A. Hix of Co. L, 30th U.S. Infantry, who fell at Chateau Thierry, July 15, 1918. He was the first and only man from South Thomaston to make the supreme sacrifice on the field of battle.
| - The Courier-Gazette, Thursday, August 30, 1923 |
The Hix Memorial formed a footbridge over a stream that run under Elm Street (Route 73). Over the years it began to fall apart, and when a culvert was put in under the road, many of the granite pieces were buried in it. In 1996 when a new culvert was put in, those granite pieces were recovered by the Wessaweskeag Historical Society.
The Wessaweskeag Historical Society wants to rebuild the monument next to the Red School House which houses the Town's library. This is less than a quarter mile from it's original site. In 1998, a foundation was laid for the monument. This is what the Society has completed with the project so far .
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The Schooner Lucy May Circa 1925
The Schooner Lucy May is supposed to have been the last schooner of it's type to enter the Wessaweskeag River. People's Methodist Church is in the background.
| Some information was provided by the WESSAWESKEAG HISTORICAL SOCIETY, P.O. Box 254, South Thomaston, Maine 04858. |
