Frenchboro

Frenchboro is a plantation in Hancock County, once incorporated as a town on February 11, 1857 under the name Islandport. The town is made up of twelve small islands located off Mount Desert Island with the village of Frenchboro, Outer Long Island, Maine located 8 miles off shore. The community consists of about 70 year round residents.

Names Places
Frenchboro	Black Island Crow Island Duck Island (1840) Island Great Duck Island Little Duck Island Green Island Harbor Island Placentia Island (1840) Island Pond Island

A Survey of Hancock County, Maine By Samuel Wasson 1876:

Islandport, February 11, 1857, "Lunt's " Long Island was incorporated as the town of "Islandport." The Act was repealed March 27, 1858, and it went back to a plantation. The support of its paupers inures to Tremont. The first settlers were, one Barker, William Rich, William Pomroy, Amos, Jacob and Ezra B. Lunt. The settlers hold their titles by occupany. It has a population of 177. It is a spot of some 500 acres, well out "amid old ocean's roar."