Abner Sr Tibbetts was the founder of Corinth Maine. In 1792 he built his home on Lot 10 First Range. Tibbetts enlisted as a Private in Captain Reuben Dyers company at the age of 17 on May 26, 1777 from Gouldsborough Maine. Abner Sr Tibbetts grave is marked by an official grave marker of a Revolutionary soldier in East Exeter Maine cemetery. The town was first settled in the late 1790s by the extended Daniel Skinner family and originally called "Ohio". There is still an "Ohio Street" in nearby Bangor, being a portion of the original road or trail connecting that town with what is now Corinth. When the town was incorporated in 1811, it changed its name to Corinth, a reference to the classical Greek city. A number of Penobscot County towns incorporated in the same period such as Etna, Carmel, Levant, were given similarly exotic names, referencing the ancient Mediterranean world, probably in order to help attract settlers. Some of these names also have Biblical references. By the mid-19th century the town had three villages: East Corinth, West Corinth, and South Corinth.
