County
Waldo County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Waldo County in 1827)
Incorporated
1813 from Beaverhill Plantation
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Smithtown Plantation (Smithton Plantation); Beaver Hill Plantation (Beaverhill Plantation)
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Freedom (Freedom Village, formerly Hussey's Mills), Freedom Town House, Gregorys Corner, Hutchins (former post office), Hutchins Corner, Sibley Corner, Smithton, South Freedom (former post office), Thurstons Corner, Webber Neighborhood, West Freedom (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Albion, Knox, Montville, Palermo, Unity
Maps
Historical USGS Maps of Freedom, Maine
Cemeteries
Waldo County Cemeteries
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Freedom, Waldo, Maine
Official Website: Town of Freedom
Freedom Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Freedom
Bibliography
______, Historical scrapbook: Freedom, Maine, 1794-1976 (Thorndike, Me.: Hutchins Brothers, 1976)
Johnson, George D., Ancestors and Descendants of Elisha Johnson of Freedom, Waldo County, Maine (Leavenworth, Kan., 1915)
Mosher, Elizabeth M., comp., Vital records of Freedom, Waldo County, Maine, prior to 1892 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1991)