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Hi Donald. I'll try to remember all of the questions. First: Belmont, Waldo County,Maine is on the outskirts of Coastal Belfast, Maine, on Penobscot Bay. We are six miles inland. We are a small, used to be a rural community. But, I think, in fact, the only milk-procucing dairy farm in our circle of towns is in Belmont, run by my nephew, Rick Morse. Belfast is now home to a very Major Credit Card Company with vast real estate holdings, and employing many local people, making Belmont, almost a "bedroom communigy", meaning people live and sleep here, but work elsewhere. We do have a manufacturing company in town, employing a small amount of people, that makes clothing for the Military.
About the Morse in my name, yes, my maiden name was Morse, and yes, I am descended from Anthony Morse. I've been working for several years compiling all of the descendants of my nearest ancestor in this area, John Lane Morse of Montville, Maine, who died in 1846.
We did start our Genealogical Society in 1989. We boomed for awhile, and was given, in trust, the one-room schoolhouse to be kept as a schoolhouse. We had a few members, who worked very hard, replaced all of the windows, held a few 'Victorian teas', open house for former students, hosted young students from local schools to see how school was once kept. We got the building on the National Register of Historic places, as it was built in 1910. My father and his siblings attended school in the schoolhouse.
My son-in-law is a building contractor; he and his brothers put in a new ceiling. We had the jail inmates paint the building with donated paint from a local company. BUT, the vandals won't leave the building alone. Most of the windows are broken. My husband and I are Senior Citizens, and we've put plastic over the windows. [It needs more plastic as I write!] The schoolhouse needs a new roof. I am burned out. There is no local interest. At this point in time, I don't know which way to go, and would welcome input from any readers.
I have a vast genealogical library, having done genealogy since 1978, having had several books published, one of which [my Baby] is 'BELMONT, MAINE - THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS' published two or three years ago, available online at Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass. and 'THE VITAL RECORDS OF SEARSMONT, MAINE', published in Dec. 2005, online available from Picton Press of Rockport, Me. There is no profit or recompense of any kind to me from either of the books. Picton Press makes any profit from the work that I did on the Searsmont book. Any profit from the Belmont book would go to GREENE PLANTATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY, but it got $12. in royalties last year. I would like to think that at my 'demise' that my Library would stay in the Town of Belmont, but at this point there doesn't seem to be a site available in Town. A nearby local Historical Society has shown interest in my genealogical/historical collection, but I am no dead yet. Thanks for asking, and God bless. Isabel Morse Maresh.
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