 Such a system still holds good in Maine.... To this day one can go thirty miles northeast of Bar Harbor and find, still unsettled, Township Number Seven, just back of Gouldsboro and Sullivan, and then go twenty miles southeast--in each case as the crow flies--and find Swan's Island Plantation, where to this day there is not enough population for the full complement of town officials.Despite a further shrinking population, with a permanent population of 468 in 1950 and only 331 in 2012, Swan’s Island was later incorporated as a town, possibly aided by regular state ferry service which began in 1960.