Norway, Oxford County
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County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1797 from Rustfield Plantation, Lee's Grant, Cummings' First and Second Purchases, and Waterford Three Tiers
Previous Designations
Rustfield
Boundary Changes
Rust's Gore (called Phillips Gore in the act of incorporation) was annexed in 1821
Three lots in Paris were annexed in 1859; part of this land was set back in 1861
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Millettville, Nobles Corner (formerly Lower Corner, or Shadagee), North Norway, Norway (Norway Village, including Steep Falls), Norway Center, Norway Lake (formerly Ford's Corner), Swift's Corner (formerly Fuller's Corner), Upper Fiddyville and Lower Fiddyville (Ward Eight)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Albany Township, Greenwood, Harrison, Otisfield, Oxford, Paris, Waterford, West Paris
Maps
Cemeteries
Norway Center Cemetery, Norway
Military Records
Revolutionary War Soldiers of Norway
Civil War Dead and Prisoners of War from Norway
World War I Soldiers Index: Norway
Newspapers
Obituary Collection: Advertiser Democrat [Ancestry.com]
Vital Records
Miscellaneous Resources
Norway Town and Civil Officers, 1797-1886
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Norway, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Norway
Bibliography
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
Bradbury, Dr. Osgood N. (Rev. Don L. McAllister, ed.), Norway in the Forties (Norway, Me.: Twin Town Graphics, 1986)
Glatz, Larry, "Lost in the Woods of Shadagee," The Courier, vol. 27 (Bethel Histiorical Society, 2003)
Lapham, William Berry, Centennial History of Norway, Oxford County, Maine, 1786-1886: including an account of the early grants and purchases, sketches of the grantees, early settlers, and prominent residents, etc.: with genealogical registers, and an appendix (Portland, Me.: B. Thurston & Co., 1886)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, comp., The Norway Register, 1903-4 ([Kent's Hill, Me.?: H.E. Mitchell Pub., 1903])
Noyes, David, The History of Norway: comprising a minute account of its first settlement, town officers, the annual expenditures of the town, with other statistical matters: interspersed with historical sketches, narrative and anecdote, and occasional remarks by the author (Norway Me.: The author, 1852)
Pike, Clifford L., Norway Centennial Poem, delivered on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the settlement of Norway, Maine, Sept. 8th, 1886 (Norway, Me.: B. Thurston & Co., 1886)
Verrill, Addison E. (Peter A. Lenz, comp. & ed.), Early Times in Norway-Greenwood, Maine (Norway, Me.: Nickle and Dime Books, 2005)
Whitman, Charles F., A History of Norway, Maine: from the earliest settlement to the close of the year 1922 (Norway, Me.: unknown, 1924)
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