Paris, Oxford County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1793 from Plantation No. 4 (Number Four Plantation)
Previous Designations
Township No. 4; Fuller's Town (Fullerstown)
Boundary Changes
Two estates in the southeast corner of this town were set off to Hebron in 1818
Part of Buckfield was annexed in 1928
Three lots were set off to Norway in 1859, and partly reannexed in 1861
Two lots were annexed from Woodstock in 1825; an additional estate was annexed from that town in 1827, and returned in part by Paris in 1841, along with another half-lot; a portion of the estate annexed in 1827 was annexed again in 1880
A half-lot was set off to Oxford in 1838
Land was set off to form West Paris in 1957
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Brimstone Corner, Elm Hill, Paris Cape, Paris Hill, Pleasant Valley, South Paris
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Buckfield, Hebron, Norway, Oxford, West Paris
Maps
Cemeteries
Swift Neighborhood (Elm Hill) Cemetery, Paris
Newspapers
Oxford Democrat — at Chronicling America
Oxford Democrat — at DigitalMaine
Vital Records
Miscellaneous Resources
History of the First Baptist Church of Paris
History of the North Paris Baptist Church
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Paris
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Paris, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Paris
Maine Memory Network: South Paris
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)
_____, Paris, Maine: the Second Hundred Years 1893-1993 (South Paris, Me.: Paris Cape Historical Society, c1994 (Camden, Me.: Penobscot Press))
______, Centennial of the First Baptist Church in Paris, Maine : observed October 1st, 1891 (Paris, Me., 1892)
Aydelott, Kathrine C., "Darius Andrews of Sumner, Maine: A Descent from Henry Andrews of Taunton, Massachusetts" (University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository, 2022)
Aydelott, Kathrine C., "Darius Andrews of Sumner, Maine: An Update" (University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository, 2023)
Briggs, Frank Augustus, Paris, Maine Soldiers of the Revolutionary War and their Descendants ([Kennebunk, Me.: F. A. Briggs, 1937])
Dibner, Martin, Portrait of Paris Hill: a Landmark Maine Village (Paris, Me.: Paris Hill Press, c1990)
Lapham, William Berry, and Silas Packard Maxim, History of Paris, Maine, from its settlement to 1880: with a history of the grants of 1736 & 1771: together with personal sketches, a copious genealogical register and an appendix (Paris, Me.: Printed for the authors, 1884)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, The Paris Register, 1906 (Brunswick, Me.: The H. E. Mitchell co., 1906)
Waterman, Charles Elmer, A City on a Hill (Paris Hill)... (Auburn, Me.: Press of Merrill & Webber Co., [1931])
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