Mars Hill

Downtown Mars Hill
Downtown Mars Hill

Mars Hill was incorporated on February 21, 1867, from Mars Hill Plantation. The area was named by a British Army chaplain in 1790 who held a service on the Hill and likened it to the hill in Athens dedicated to Mars, where “the Apostle Paul declared the unknown God to the Athenians.” Later the British claimed the Hill defined the boundary between the United States and Canada. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty clarified the issue, placing the border much further north and the Hill, overlooking the St. John River valley, safely within the United States. — Maine, An Encyclopedia

GPS Coordinates

46°33′35″N 67°51′07″

 

Census Locations

1850 Census

Mars Hill Township

1860 Census

Mars Hill

1870 Census

Mars Hill

1880 Census

Mars Hill

Grid Location

T10b R1 WELS

Associated Place Names

Kings Grove