Town of Beddington

Beddington is a town in Washington County, incorporated on January 31, 1833 from Plantation Number 23 MD.

Beddington was a stage coach link on the Airline State Route (now state Route 9) during the late nineteenth century.  In 1858, the future President of the Confederate State of America, Jefferson Davis, stayed at the Old Shoppe House while visiting Alexander Bache.  Bache was a U.S. Senator and was with the U.S. Coast Survey Service running a base line between Deblois and Columbia.

Supposedly, Davis left a small chest with Bache to deliver to a man who would come for it and give a certain sign.  The delivery, of what might have been documents related to the upcoming Civil War, was made in the fall of 1858.

From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)