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- We visited Brownville and Brownville Junction Maine on 11-13 August 2004 while visiting David and Linda Olsson at a summer camp on Ebeemee Pond north of Brownville Junction. Had previously called ahead to the Brownville Town Clerk's Office (Brownville Town Clerk, Central Square, P.O. Box 659, Brownville, ME 04414, 207-965-2561) to request copies of Richard G. MUNROE's birth (1 March 1917) certificate, and Audrey R. MUNROE's birth (26 May 1920) and death (13 February 1922) certificate. When I arrived at the office, they had found Audrey's birth and death records, but nothing for Richard. He apparently was not born in Brownville Junction Maine as previously recorded, unless it was an unrecorded birth.
There was also confusion about the location of BRIDGE STREET as listed in the 1920 census (address for Arthur and Ruby MUNROE and son Richard in the 1920 census was 53 Bridge Street, Brownville ME). According to the Brownville Town Clerk, there is no Bridge Street in Brownville Junction. Bridge Street in Brownville used to be a small piece of what is now Church Street (the road that the Town Clerk's Office and the Post Office is on), but it was never long enough to have 50-60 houses on it (house numbers on the 1920 census page go from 53 - 61), and it is not near the railroad yards and never had railroad workers housing. RailRoad Ave. in Brownville Junction is a more likely candidate. It is right by the rail yard, and used to be lined with triple-decker tenements (there is one of these houses left, I snapped a photo) for the railroad workers.
The Town Clerk also said that there were no MUNROEs or MONROEs in either of the two cemeteries, but there was an A. GRIGGS buried in Row K, Lot 5 of Pine Tree Cemetery on Route 11 (Davis Street) in Brownville Junction. Visited the cemetery, photographed the gravestone:
ALBERT E. GRIGGS
AUG 11, 1890 - DEC 19, 1948
ANNIE ALLISON, HIS WIFE
OCT 2, 1894
Spoke with the owner of Graves Texaco (Mr. Graves?), who called his father (born in 1923) to confirm some of the names on the census record page, and he confirmed that the folks listed near the MUNROEs lived "across the tracks" near the center of town.
Date of Research/Discovery=12 August 2004
Quality of Data=Good
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