Aroostook County, Maine

Founding: 1839
Parent counties: Penobscot and Washington
Namesake: The Aroostook River
Seat: Houlton (1839–)
Land area: 6,671 square miles
Population (2020): 67,105
Population (historic): 9,413 (1840); 22,479 (1860); 41,700 (1880); 60,744 (1900); 87,843 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1840–1910; 1950s
Subdivisions: Two cities; 15 CDPs; seven territories; 53 towns
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 9,140 (22.9%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 56%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 7.4%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 19.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 16.4%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,965
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,956

Average farmhouse size (1940): 6.3 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 6,741
Average farm size (1920): 66.9 acres
Sources of settlement: Maine, Canada, and Sweden
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Houlton

 
Namesake: Joseph Houlton, owner of the town site
Founding: 1807 (founding); 1826 (post office); 1831 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 6,055
Population (historic): 115 (1820); 1,453 (1850); 2,850 (1870); 4,686 (1900); 6,865 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1820–1840; 1850–1910; 1920–1940
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,051 (35.9%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church (1893). 993 Main Street. Grand Isle. Classical Revival.
2. St. David Catholic Church (1911). 764 Main Street. Madawaska. Baroque Revival.
3. Hiram Eaton Farm (c. 1880). 678 Drew's Lake Road. New Limerick. Italianate.
4. Timmerhuset / Log House (c. 1871). New Sweden Road, north of Jepson Road. New Sweden. Razed.
5. Nicholas Clase Log House (c. 1875). Station Road, west of Capitol Hill Road. New Sweden. Razed.
6. Larsson Log House (c. 1888). 290 Station Road. New Sweden.
7. John Sodergren Farm (1884). 1713 Caribou Road. Stockholm.

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