{"id":5991,"date":"2019-05-18T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:23:49","slug":"student-leads-the-discovery-of-aroostook-countys-lost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2019\/05\/18\/student-leads-the-discovery-of-aroostook-countys-lost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Leads the Discovery of Aroostook County\u2019s Lost Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is Maysville? Thanks to UMPI student Evan Zarkadas and mentor Kim Sebold\u2019s University Day presentation, we now know that Maysville was a town across from Presque Isle. Maysville was first settled in 1816 and was annexed into Presque Isle in 1883. Through research, Zarkadas learned about the history of the pioneers and infrastructure of Maysville. \u201cYou travel through Maysville every day,\u201d Zarkadas said.<\/p>\n

Zarkadas was able to trace a map from 1877 into where Maysville would presently be. He estimates that everything from the bridge past the Aroostook Centre Mall is Maysville. \u201cThe story of Mayville and for the rest of Aroostook County begins with land,\u201d Zarkadas said. Most of the pioneers came because of land. The price of land in the early 1800s was estimated to be 50 cents an acre. Maysville went through agricultural booms after both the Aroostook War in 1839 and the Civil War in 1865.<\/p>\n

The first road was established during the Aroostook War. The settlers wanted to avoid the New Brunswick men. \u201cIf you hate somebody you build a whole road out of it,\u201d Zarkadas said. The two most important infrastructures of Maysville were the bridge and the Grange. Citizens of Maysville who wanted to become part of Presque Isle would say, \u201cIf we lose the bridge, what\u2019s happening with our town?\u201d The Grange was a place where farmers would go to form associations. \u201cIt was like a city hall of the time,\u201d Zarkadas said. \u201cThe Grange started as a school, then it became a city hall, then it got burned about seven times and rebuilt.\u201d The Grange is now the Maysville museum, to which Zarkadas\u2019 presentation, pictures, maps and 200-page report will be donated.<\/p>\n

Zarkadas\u2019 effort speaks for itself. \u201cIt took two years, first year was going through census records and going through paperwork about each family and names.\u201d He used newspapers from the time and public records as other sources. Sebold said that Evan had to decipher old handwriting to be used for charts. \u201cIt takes discipline, willpower, and extreme interest,\u201d Sebold said.\u00a0 Sebold also said that Zarkadas earned a certificate for the geographic information system. That helped him translate the old Maysville maps. \u201cThe thing about Evan is, you tell a couple things, point him in the right direction and he just goes.\u201d Sebold said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes discipline, willpower, and extreme interest,\u201d Sebold said. Sometimes that\u2019s what it takes to prompt the interest and research to find out more about where you come from and why it is important. \u201cLocal history is not appreciated much. More people read about the big wars and countries. By looking at one part of Northern Maine that no one will ever look for, you learn a lot about people and culture,\u201d Zarkadas said. Maysville maybe gone, but its history is now preserved.<\/p>\n

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What is Maysville? Thanks to UMPI student Evan Zarkadas and mentor Kim Sebold\u2019s University Day presentation, we now know that Maysville was a town across from Presque Isle. Maysville was first settled in 1816 and was annexed into Presque Isle in 1883. Through research, Zarkadas learned about the history of the pioneers and infrastructure of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}