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| | Community Interest - The History of Holden Maine |
 | | In the spring of 1787, a section six miles east from the Penobscot River was surveyed by General John Blake of Wrentham, Massachusetts. |
 | | That area, now Holden, has borne the names of two states, Massachusetts and Maine; three counties - Hancock, Lincoln, and Penobscot, as well as the town names of East Wrentham, New Wrentham, Orrington, East Brewer and finally in 1852, Holden. |
 | | I said first house built in Holden." It is still occupied by one of his descendents. |
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