Some interesting information about the Atlas of Kennebec County: Here is the wording of a receipt for an order for a copy of this atlas from Aaron Stewart of Clinton, Maine, signed Oct. 1, 1878, to G. N. Colby, Agent for the publisher:

This Atlas will contain complete and accurate Plans and Maps of every Town in the County, showing the Roads, Streams, Town-Lines, Railways, Houses, Shops, Mills, Churches, School-Houses, &c., with name of owners of each. Also City and Village Plans, giving every street and building, public and private, together with a complete Business Directory of every subscriber, and other valuable historical and statistical information, &c., &c. The whole is to be bound in book form, with solid covers, for convenience and protection. This Atlas must be of great importance to every citizen of the County.
Colby & Caldwell.

Messrs. Colby & Caldwell: Please furnish me one copy of the above Atlas, for which (when delivered) I hereby agree to pay the sun of ten dollars cash.