South Thomaston is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.

[2] A fishing and resort area, the town includes the village of Spruce Head.

Thomas Lefebvre from Quebec, Canada owned a huge tract of land at the Weskeag River, where his stay began in 1704.

But the adjacent St. George River was the uneasy dividing line between land controlled by New England and New France.

Permanent settlement would be delayed by the French and Indian Wars, which ended with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

[3] In 1767, Wessaweskeag was settled by Elisha Snow, who built a sawmill operated by tidal power.

The village of South Thomaston grew around the mills, which would include three granite polishing machines to process stone cut from the town's numerous quarries.

Gilford Bulter and his sister Lula Butler lived in what is now known as the Geag Inn, next to the present U. S. Post Office.