Shirley, ME 04485
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Located south of Greenville, the small Maine village of Shirley is named after Shirley, Massachusetts. Shirley, Maine was named by Joseph Kelsey, the local representative to the legislature at the time of incorporation in 1834, because the same town in Massachusetts had been his birthplace.

Shirley's most famous native was Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye, an American journalist and humorist who founded the 'Laramie Boomerang' while serving as postmaster in Laramie, Wyoming. Nye wrote several works throughout his life, including Baled Hay, Bill Nye's Comin History of the United States and Bill Nye's History of England.