What's new at mainephilatelic.org

2026 April 5

Just posted are newly revised postal history pages for Great Pond,
Gouldsboro,
and Winter Harbor

2026 March 29

The editors of The Post Offices of Maine book and database have posted freshly updated versions of the data files and text, now available for download. These files include cumulative addenda and errata corrections up to 23 March 2026. Please note -- when you go to download and print these files, your page count may vary slightly from the numbers shown below.

TPOOM Table One -- All Maine -- PDF updated through 23 March 2026. This includes all tabular data that appeared in the book with addenda and corrections as of 23 March 2026. It is sorted according to name of the post office, then the date opened. This is presented as a PDF file that is designed to be printed in landscape orientation. Printing on single- sided sheets will take 156 sheets of paper.
https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323.pdf

TPOOM Table Two -- All Maine -- PDF updated through 23 March 2026. Includes all data as above, but sorted by county, town, and date. It is formatted to view and print in landscape mode. Single-side printing would require 150 sheets of paper, but of course you can choose to print just the pages that you want. Also...see the individual County Subsets below, if you want to print just one or a few counties.
https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-countytown.pdf

TPOOM Background Text. PDF format. Updated through 25 March 2026. This includes all the introductory text, including a glossary of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms, and an explanation of the scarcity ratings (S/R). Also included is information on numbered stations. Also the Appendices, and a few images of post offices and covers. This file includes a copy of the guide, Research Resources on Maine Postal History, which is also available as a separate download, below. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-text4web-20260325.pdf

TPOOM -- All Maine -- Excel format. updated 23 March 2026. All data, in original Excel file format. This is provided for folks who wish to work with the original spreadsheet. Notes about the format of the fields, including the mysterious 8digitdate field, can be provided. Possible uses are for creating your own detailed inventory system and/or keeping your data in a personal cloud-based storage account (e.g., Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, etc.) so that you can access it from anywhere.
Can be provided via email. Contact us at postalhistorymaine@gmail.com.

County Subsets

These files are drawn from Table Two, and are based on the current counties, not the historic counties. The data is sorted by the name of the town, then by the opening dates of the post offices. Like Table Two above, this enables you to see the data for all of the post offices in each town, sorted chronologically, town by town.

TPOOM Androscoggin
Post Offices of Androscoggin County, sorted by town + date opened. 11 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Androscoggin.pdf

TPOOM Aroostook
Post Offices of Aroostook County, sorted by town + date opened. 13 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Aroostook.pdf

TPOOM Cumberland
Post Offices of Cumberland County, sorted by town + date opened. 18 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Cumberland.pdf

TPOOM Franklin
Post Offices of Franklin County, sorted by town + date opened. 9 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Franklin.pdf

TPOOM Hancock
Post Offices of Hancock County, sorted by town + date opened. 12 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Hancock.pdf

TPOOM Kennebec
Post Offices of Kennebec County, sorted by town + date opened. 10 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Kennebec.pdf

TPOOM Knox
Post Offices of Knox County, sorted by town + date opened. 7 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Knox.pdf

TPOOM Lincoln
Post Offices of Lincoln County, sorted by town + date opened. 18 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Lincoln.pdf

TPOOM Oxford
Post Offices of Oxford County, sorted by town + date opened. 18 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20250323-Oxford.pdf

TPOOM Penobscot
Post Offices of Penobscot County, sorted by town + date opened. 20 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Penobscot.pdf

TPOOM Piscataquis
Post Offices of Piscataquis County, sorted by town + date opened. 8 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Piscataquis.pdf

TPOOM Sagadahoc
Post Offices of Sagadahoc County, sorted by town + date opened. 8 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Sagadahoc.pdf

TPOOM Somerset
Post Offices of Somerset County, sorted by town + date opened. 10 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Somerset.pdf

TPOOM Waldo
Post Offices of Waldo County, sorted by town + date opened. 8 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Waldo.pdf

TPOOM Washington
Post Offices of Washington County, sorted by town + date opened. 10 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-Waldo.pdf

TPOOM York
Post Offices of York County, sorted by town + date opened. 13 pages, landscape format. https://www.mainephilatelic.org/TPOOM/TPOOM-20260323-York.pdf



2026 March 25

Newly revised postal history page is now online for
Franklin

and the Upcoming events calendar has been updated through the end of April. Waterville Stamp Club's MUDPEX will be happening very soon, on April 18, at the usual location at the Winslow VFW Hall.

2026 March 2

Newly revised postal history pages are now online for
Isle au Haut
Stonington
Ellsworth
Eastbrook
and Trenton


2026 February 3

The online event calendar has been updated to show the stamp club meetings for the month of February.

2026 January 28

Newly revised postal history pages are now online for
Castine
Cranberry Isles
and Deer Isle


2026 January 1

The calendar for stamp club meetings for January is now online. Please note that Waterville is not meeting on Friday, January 2.

Now online are the newly revised pages for Southwest Harbor, Brooksville, and Bucksport.

2025 December 18

We've just posted newly revised pages for Bar Harbor, Mount Desert and PresqueIsle.

The pages for Bar Harbor and Mount Desert reveal details that will clear up confusion about the locations of Long Pond and Otter Creek.

Did you know that the Town of Bar Harbor was once the Town of Eden? The Bar Harbor page includes history of the usage of the name "Eden" in post office names.

2025 November 24

...and we're back

Thoroughly revised pages have been posted for
Amherst and Aurora in Hancock County, and Appleton and Cushing in Knox County.

2025 September 4

New or thoroughly revised pages are now up for all of the towns in Franklin County.

In the last days we have added
Strong,
Temple,
Tim Pond Township,
Township 6 North of Weld
  (once the site of the mysterious Town of Berlin),
Weld
and Wilton.

A new page is up for Seven Ponds Township in Franklin County. Seven Ponds was the location of Beaver Pond and Big Island, two post offices that served camps of the Megantic Fish and Game Corporation

2025 August 27

Up now are two new postal history pages...one for Rangeley Plantation and one for Salem Township.

Rangeley Plantation was the site of Bemis. Salem was a prosperous community in its early days and its population peaked at 561 in 1840, but had dwindled to 78 in 1940. The post office closed on January 31, 1940; in 1945 the voters elected to give up the organization of the town, allowing Salem to revert to the status of an unorganized township.

2025 August 12
Now online, a brand-new postal history page for Redington Township, which we have not previously covered. Redington is located in Franklin County, just west of Carrabassett Valley, and is a ghost town where once there was a sawmill and small company town alongside the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad.

2025 August 9
A new postal history page for the Town of Rangeley including its 14 post offices is now online. Rangeley includes within its town boundaries such exotic locales as Barker, Haines Landing, Mingo Springs, Mooselookmeguntic, and others.

2025 August 5
Now online are freshly revised postal history pages for a couple more Franklin County towns...New Vineyard, which includes East Strong,
and Phillips.


2025 July 27
...And we have just posted a new postal history page for the Town of New Sharon, in Franklin County (but, once upon a time, in Kennebec County).

There is a new postal history page for Madrid Township now online. Once the home of three post offices, Madrid is a town near Phillips, in Franklin County, that gave up its town goverment and became a deorganized township in 2000.

2025 June 16
We've just posted a new postal history page for the Town of Albion.

2025 May 25
New postal history pages are now online for Kingfield and Augusta.

2025 May 7
We've just added newly updated postal history pages for the Town of Jay and for Jim Pond Township (T1 R5 WBKP)

2025 April 17
There are now approximately 72 back issues of The Maine Philatelist now online, with more on the way. We will be adding an index to these, but in the meantime please enjoy browsing through the back issues. There are lots of great articles on Maine stamps and postal history.
The new postal history page for the Town of Dedham, in Hancock County is now online.
The postal history page for the Town of Industry, in Franklin County, is now posted.

2025 March 23
A newly revised postal history page for Freeman Township is now online. (In case you're wondering...it is north of Farmington, and just south of Kingfield. Freeman disbanded its town government in 1938, and has been an unorganized township since then. Its last post office closed in 1902, although there were three post offices in operation in the 1890s.)

2025 March 17
Pages now updated for Eustis and Farmington

2025 March 5
Trying to keep the post offices and postmarks for Kennebago and Kennebago Lake sorted? We have just posted a brand new web page on the postal history of Davis Township, and a revised page on the history of Stetsontown Township.

Calendar of club events now updated for March meetings, plus MUDPEX and MAIPEX.

2025 February 18
And you thought Dallas was in Texas? Pages now updated for Coplin Plantation and Dallas Plantation.



2025 February 17
Ever wonder where the Moosehorn post office was? Find out in one of these freshly revised postal history pages...
Chesterville
or, maybe it's in
Coburn Gore.

2025 January 31
The Calendar of Maine stamp club meetings is now updated through the end of February.

2025 January 25
Now online: freshly revised postal history pages for Carrabassett Valley, Carthage and Chain of Ponds Township.

2025 January 13
Newly revised postal history pages are now online for Alder Stream Township, Avon and Beattie Township.

2025 January 5
The Post Offices of Maine database -- aka TPOOM -- has been updated to reflect corrections and new information. The database files, updated as of 1 January, are now available for download as Table One (all post offices, alpha order), Table Two (all post offices, sorted by county, town, and date opened) as well as individual files for each of the 16 counties. All are available on the TPOOM download page.

2024 December 27
A newly revised postal history page for South Portland is now online.

Just in time for the holidays, we've just posted the revised postal history page (actually a 128-page pdf) for Portland

2024 November 18
Ever felt the urge to look up all the postmasters of your town, but didn't know quite how? Or have you tried and found the Postmaster Appointment records confusing and hard to understand? MPS comes to the rescue with a new version of the Finding Aid for Postmaster Appointment Records from 1789 to the Present.

You'll find Bonny Eagle, Sebago Lake, Standish, Steep Falls, and four other post offices in the revised postal history page for Standish

2024 November 5
Just posted a revised postal history page for the ten post offices (including Cumberland Mills, Duck Pond, Prides Corner, Highland Lake, and Saccarappa) that have operated in what is now the City of Westbrook

2024 November 4
Just posted a revised postal history page for the Town of Yarmouth

2024 November 1
Our calendar of upcoming events has been updated with dates for club meetings in November and December.

2024 October 10
Revised postal history page now online for Scarborough with details on its 24 post offices.

2024 October 8
Revised postal history page now online for Raymond
Also, we have added several more back issues of The Maine Philatelist in that archive with more to come!

2024 September 20
Revised postal history pages now up for Naples and New Gloucester

2024 September 19
Revised postal history pages now online for the Town of Long Island (in Casco Bay) and the Town of Sebago.

2024 September 9
There's a Midcoast town with 216 miles of shoreline and a history of 18 post offices. Find about about them on the newly revised and just posted postal history page for Harpswell.

2024 September 5
Revised postal history pages for Gray and Lisbon have been posted.

2024 September 1
Revised postal history pages for Freeport and Harrison now online.

2024 August 31
New postal history page now online for Falmouth

2024 August 30
Calendar now updated with events for September and October. Regular club meetings, plus shows in Waterville, Topsham, Boxboro, Fredericton N.B., and Quebec City.

Revised postal history page for Casco now online.

2024 August 22
Another 15 issues of The Maine Philatelist are now online.
Many revised postal history pages for Cumberland County towns are in the pipeline and will be posted soon!

2024 July 11
Newly revised postal history pages now online for three more Aroostook towns...
Washburn
Winterville Plantation (including Quimby)
Woodland

2024 July 7
Newly revised postal history page now online for
VanBuren

2024 July 1
Newly revised postal history pages now online for
Littleton
Griswold, T9 R4

2024 June 24
Newly revised postal history page now online for
T13R15 WELS, i.e. Seven Islands

2024 June 22
Newly revised postal history pages now online for the following Aroostook County towns...
Township 1 Range 5 home to post offices named Number One, and Rawson.
Square Lake


2024 June 20
Newly revised postal history pages now online for the following Aroostook County towns...
New Limerick ...reflecting recent closure
Wallagrass
Stockholm

2024 June 19
Newly revised postal history pages now online for the following Aroostook County towns...
Saint Francis
Saint Croix
Reed Plantation (location of Wytopitlock)
Smyrna
Saint Francis
Silver Ridge Township (location of Monarda)

2024 June 18
Maine Philatelic Society got a nice mention in this front-page feature from the June 16 edition of the Maine Sunday Telegram.

2024 June 17
Updated version of the Addenda and Errata document for The Post Offices of Maine book and database is now online here. It's five pages, and designed to be printed out and filed in your binder for the book.

2024 June 16
Postal history page for Town of St. Agatha, Aroostook County

Postal history page for Sinclair Township (T17 R4 WELS), Aroostook County

2024 June 14
So where was Sandy Creek? Find out on the new postal history page for Town of Bridgton, Cumberland County

2024 June 13
Postal history page for Saint John Plantation, Aroostook County

2024 May 31
We're developing an online archive of back issues of The Maine Philatelist.