East Eddington, Main Road and Airline Road are the names to start with on this map of Eddington, Maine. Riverside Drive, Jarvis Gore Drive, Clewleyville Road and Blackcap Road are here too, along with Davis Pond. Click here to purchase a print of this map for your wall.
Eddington is a town in Penobscot County, with 2,194 people at the 2020 census.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data and gave it the look of an old atlas. The Census Bureau measures the town at 26.54 square miles, 1.55 of them water, and its files give the roads and the town line. United States Geological Survey elevation data shades the ground, which has a listed elevation of 240 feet.
Colonel Eddy’s town
Eddington carries the name of the man who started it. Jonathan Eddy, born in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1726 or 1727, served as a militia captain in the French and Indian War and then settled at Cumberland, Nova Scotia, where he sat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. When the Revolution began he sided openly with the rebels and tried to bring Nova Scotia into the fight. In November 1776 he led a force of 180 men in an attack on Fort Cumberland, which failed, and he and his supporters lost their homes in reprisal. Eddy then spent the rest of the war on the defense of Machias, which he led against a British attack in 1777.
After the war, Eddy and others who had backed the rebel cause in Nova Scotia were given land on the east side of the Penobscot River, and in 1784 he started the settlement that grew into Eddington. Most of the town’s first settlers came with him from Nova Scotia. He was the first magistrate in the area, and when he died in 1804 he was buried here. The town was incorporated in 1811.
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East Eddington’s hall
In East Eddington village, on Route 9, stands Comins Hall, built in 1879 as the East Eddington Public Hall. A local carpenter, John James Temple, led the community project, and the hall was put up for the East Eddington Farmers’ Club, founded in 1876 so farmers could meet and talk about their work. Its page calls it the town’s only major social and civic meeting space since then. It has been a polling place from the start and the only site of town meetings from 1936 into the 1970s, and since a stage was added in 1911 it has hosted traveling shows as well as Grange meetings, dances and dinners. In 1983 the Eddington-Clifton Civic Center took it over and named it for the Comins family, long active in local affairs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Route 9 east of Bangor is often called the Airline, a name that goes back to the early 1850s, set against the older shoreline route, and Airline Road shares it. Long before any of these roads, people lived at the Eddington Bend Site, on a terrace above a sharp bend of the Penobscot, where finds date back as far as 3,000 BCE. The river there is described as having a fine and well-known salmon pool.
A tenor from Eddington
Norman Kelley was born and raised in Eddington. He left for Boston at 16, meaning to train as a minister, but won a scholarship to study theater and music instead. He became an operatic tenor with a career that ran from the 1940s into the 1970s, sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera from 1957 to 1961, created leading roles in four world premieres at the New York City Opera, and wrote the English version of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel that was first performed in 1967.
Around Eddington
Main Road and Airline Road are printed on the map, and so are Riverside Drive, Jarvis Gore Drive, Clewleyville Road and Blackcap Road. East Eddington is printed too, and Davis Pond is labeled on the map. The neighborhood streets and back roads are drawn in as well.
This Eddington map makes a fine addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for everyone who calls Eddington home, from Riverside Drive to Davis Pond, as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Eddington, Maine map.
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