Eddington is a rural town in Penobscot County, settled in 1780 and incorporated on February 22, 1811 from Eddington Plantation. It annexed land from Jarvis Gore in 1823 and from Brewer in 1846 and 1855. It’s approximately 27 square miles and estimated population is 2,233. The town was founded and named after Jonathan Eddy, a militia captain in the French and Indian War, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War and the first magistrate in the area. Jonathan Eddy was a Massachusetts native who moved to Nova Scotia about 1758, but returned to Boston to volunteer in the Revolutionary War. In 1785 he and 19 other refugees from Nova Scotia were given 9,000 acres of land in what was to become Eddington. Jonathan Eddy monument is located on Monument Dr (aka….at the junction of the old river road, or military road to Houlton and the old Airline stage route to Calais)​