County
Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)
Incorporated
1762 from New Marblehead Plantation
Previous Designations
New Marblehead
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Baker Corner, Dolley Corner, East Windham, Fosters Corner, Glantz Corner, Ireland Corner, Land of Nod, Lowells Corner, Morrills Corner, Newhall (formerly Gambo Falls), North Windham, Pleasant Ridge, Popeville, Scotland, South Windham, Union Chapel, White's Bridge, Windham Center, Windham Hill
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Cumberland, Falmouth, Gorham, Gray, Standish, Raymond, Westbrook
Maps
Historical USGS Maps of Windham, Maine
Cemeteries
Windham Historical Society: Cemeteries
USGenWeb Project Archives: Windham Cemetery Index
Inscriptions from Smith Cemetery, Windham
Austin Cemetery, Windham, Me.
Brown Cemetery, Windham, Me.
McIntosh Cemetery, Windham, Me.
Church Records
Windham Church Records, 1798-1853
Military Records
Windham Civil War Soldiers
Newspapers
Lakes Region Weekly
Vital Records
Some Windham Vital Records, 1743-1762
Windham Historical Society: Vital Records
Windham Church Records, 1798-1853
Miscellaneous Resources
Windham Tax List, 1776
Windham Scholars, 1842
Windham Scholars, 1873
Windham School Census, 1900
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Windham, Cumberland, Maine
Windham Historical Society
Official Website: Town of Windham
Maine Memory Network: Windham
Bibliography
______, Report of Windham Bi-centennial Committee, July 30, 1938: together with a copy of the historical address [Ancestry.com] (unknown: unknown, 1938?)
______, "Windham, Maine, Marriages," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 107 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1953) [Marriages performed by John Webb, Esq., 1827-61]
Dole, Frederick H., Sketches of the history of Windham, Maine, 1734-1935: the story of a typical New England town (Westbrook, Me.: H.S. Cobb, printer, 1935)
Dole, Samuel T., "White's Bridge," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 6 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1895)
Dole, Samuel T., "Little Falls: A Chapter of Local History," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 9 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1898)
Dole, Samuel T., "Early Schools in New Marblehead, now Windham," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 9 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1898)
Dole, Samuel T., "The Meeting-House War in New Marblehead," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 10 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1899)
Dole, Samuel T., "Extracts from the Old Records of Windham," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 10 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1899)
Dole, Samuel Thomas, Windham in the past (Auburn, Me.: Merrill & Webber Co., 1916)
Goold, Nathan, Windham, Maine in the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783 (Portland, Me.: H.W. Bryant, 1900)
Goold, William, "Thomas Chute : the first settler of Windham, Maine, and his descendants" Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 7 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1896)
Grant, Amorena, The Roberts family: a genealogy of Joseph Roberts of Windham, Maine, 18th century (Chicago, Ill.: West Chicago Press Association, 1902)
Ketover, Karen Sherman, comp., Westbrook, Maine cemeteries: plus the surrounding towns of Cumberland, Falmouth, Gorham, Portland & Windham (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, c1996)
Lord, Harold M., The Windham, Maine, branch of the Nathan Lord family, of Kittery, Maine (1928)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Windham Register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H.E. Mitchell, 1904)
Murphy, Harry M., Index of History of the town of Windham: prepared at the request of the Town by Thomas Laurens Smith (Albuquerque, N.M.: H.M. Murphy, 1991)
Smith, Thomas Laurens, A historical address, delivered on the fourth of July, 1839, at the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Windham (Portland Me.: Arthur Shirley, 1840)
Smith, Thomas Laurens, History of the town of Windham (Portland Me.: Hoyt & Fogg, 1873)