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Maple Ridge Island History
Collaborative
History of Maple Ridge Island Hosted by: MapleRidgeLive.com Ariel Photos Cobbosseeconte Lake in Central
Maine Documents, Graphics, Resources Chain of Title to Maple Ridge Island 1964 Dayken – Chick Island Deed Monmouth Tax Map with Island Detail Kennebec County
and Registry of Deeds Maple Ridge drive 50 Foot
Right-A-Way (Note
reference in 1988 Deed to lot #25) 2018 Survey North Road and
Lot #95 History of Maple Ridge Island Maple Ridge Island was unsettled but legally owned as early as 1883 as listed above in
the “Chain of Title to
Maple Ridge Island” as seen in the 1988
Deed to Lot #25. The September 1926 Survey by Nisbet &
Griffin Inc. 11 Exchange St, Portland, Maine was the basis for the 1948 St. Moritz Club Plan which was “traced
from the blueprint” of the Survey which had “lot lines in pencil”. The St.
Moritz Club Plan is the earliest recorded description of Maple Ridge Island
based on a survey. The Plan shows three camps on the Island
with depictions of their locations. One of the camps, shown on the Plan, is
situated at the Southwest corner of Lot #20.
That camp is pictured in two of the photos in the Muriel
Minkowsky's Gallery of Original Pictures. One of the images in the gallery shows
William Bergin SR standing on the porch in or about 1929. The other two camps
identified on the Plan were on Lots #7 and Lot #12. The origin of the three
camps is of interest to the Collaborative. It is known that the camp on Lot
#20 was relocated from the mainland by transporting it across the winter ice
to the island. The 1964 Dayken – Chick Island Deed Development
of the Island proceeded slowly until 1964 when Harland Dayken and Normand Chick
purchased Maple Ridge Island from Clerence and Greta Peterson from New
Hampshire. Dayken
and Chick financed the construction of a land bridge causeway with large a
passthrough culvert connecting the island to Cobbosseecontee Road on the
mainland. The causeway was constructed by The Cyr Construction Company in the
summer of 1965 and several photos in Muriel’s Gallery show the progress and
completion of the Causeway. There are
also photos of a mishap as one of the construction trucks went off the
causeway into the lake. The 1965 Clifford L. Swan Plan The Clifford
Swan Plan recorded in 1965 shows the layout of the 50-foot waterfront lots to
be sold by Dayken and Chick. An island
right-of-way for Daychick Road (renamed Maple Ridge Drive) is referenced in
the 1988 deed to Lot #25. This Deed is
included for its list of previous owners of Maple Ridge Island listing
transfer dates and owners until Daken and Chick acquired the Island from the
Petersons in 1964. See an image of the Deed with reference to the Maple Ridge Drive 50 Foot
Right-A-Way and the “chain of title to Maple Ridge Island” dating back to
1883. Chain of Title to Maple Ridge Island
(Book 3322, Page 120 KCRD) (Clipped and displayed here from the
1988 Deed to Lot #25)
Location of Maple Ridge Island Aerial view of the entire
Cobbosseeconte Lake from Maple Ridge Island in the South to Manchester, Maine
in the North
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Image
of The July 8, 1964, Harland Daken
and Normand Chick
Deed
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The 1964 Dayken
and Chick Deed to Maple Ridge Island
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The July 8, 1964 Harland Daken and Normand
Chick Deed to Maple Ridge Island references The 1948 ST. Moritz
Club Plan as the foundation of its description of Maple Ridge
Island and is referenced to Book 869, Page 4 at the Kennebec County
and Registry of Deeds |
Monmouth, Maine Tax Map 24
Tax Map Image Detail of The Island
Monmouth
Tax Map 24 displays Maple Ridge Island with the current Lot Numbers that
combined most of the 50-foot lots on the Swan Plan into 100-foot lots to comply
with the Monmouth zoning regulations. Map 24 lists the legacy 50-foot Lot
Numbers with the modern current Lot numbering.
For example: at the south end of the Island Lot #20 on the 1948 St. Moritz
Club Plan with the camp noted (not shown on the Swan Plan) is now Lot #112 on Tax Map 24. At the North end of the Island Lots #34, 35
and 63 on the Swan Plan are now combined on Map 24 as Lot #95.
The Causeway to Cattail Lane
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The 2018 Survey The 2018 Survey
defines the North end of Maple Ridge Drive with its centerline and two
sidelines of the deeded fifty-foot road right-of-way from the top of the hill
to the end of the road as it terminates in the wetlands. The Survey complies
with the 1965
Clifford Swan Co. Plan as surveyed by Boudreau and Manne in that same
year, 1965. The survey
documents an important distinction between the defined 50-foot Right-of- Way
and the actual “Traveled Way” the road makes as it is on the ground; noting
that the actual road is not anywhere 50 feet wide and that the Right-of-Way
extends on to the abutting Lots along the entire road. See the “Traveled
Way”, of the actual road, marked off on the Survey as dashed lines mostly,
but not always, well within the 50-foot Right-of-Way. See Book 2018
Page 139 at the Kennebec County and Registry of Deeds for a copy of the
original 2018 Survey. Survey Error There is an error
on the Survey which incorrectly labels Lot #95 as Lot #96. The registered Deed and the Monmouth Tax
Map #24 both identify the Lot as #95. See the Image of The Survey below Select this Link to download a full copy of the Survey Or this one: Link to see an image of the Survey
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