Van Buren, Aroostook County, Maine Genealogy

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Van Buren is a former large plantation, now a smaller town in northeast Aroostook County. Before 1843 it was known as Township Letter M R2 WELS. The much larger Van Buren Plantation was first organized in 1843. Since then it has been reduced by three set offs (Letter L R2 Cyr Plantation 1857; Township 18 R3 Grand Isle 1859; Letter G R1 Hamlin 1859) before Van Buren became a town in 1881. Van Buren annexed part of Hamlin in 1907.