Maine Places

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County

Oxford County (set off from York County in 1805)

Incorporated

1805 from Bostwick Plantation

Previous Designations

Township Letter A No. 3 (TA3), or Letter A No. 3; Sunday River Plantation

Boundary Changes

Parts of Letter A No. 2 (now Grafton Township) and Andover West Surplus were annexed in 1837

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Newry, Newry Corner, North Newry, South Newry (former post office), Sunday River (former post office at Newry)

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Andover, Andover West Surplus, Bethel, Gilead, Hanover, Riley Township, Rumford

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Newry

Cemeteries

Smith Cemetery, Newry

Sunday River Cemetery

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Newry, Oxford, Maine

Official Website: Town of Newry

MEGenWeb Project: Newry

Bibliography

Wight, Carrie, Newry, Maine, 1805-1955 (Bethel, Me.: The Oxford County Citizen, 1955)

Wight, Paula M., Newry Profiles, 1805-1980 ([Maine?: P. M. Wight?, 1980?])

Wilkins, Martha Fifield, Sunday River Sketches: A New England Chronicle (Rumford, Me.: Androscoggin Publications, 1977)

York, Carole A., Western Maine Saints: The First Mormons of Western Maine 1830--1890 (Master's Thesis, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2010)