Rumford, Oxford County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1800 from New Pennycook Plantation
Previous Designations
New Pennacook (New Penacook, New Pennicook, New Pennycook, etc.)
Boundary Changes
Part of Peru was annexed in 1895
Part of Franklin Plantation (organized in 1842 from part of Township No. 2) was annexed in 1899, the remainder annexed to Peru
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Abbots Mill (Abbot's Mill, Abbot's Mills), Bisbees (former railroad station), Littlefield (former post office), Mount Zircon (later Zircon, a former post office), North Rumford, Porters (former railroad station), Rumford (Rumford Falls), Rumford Center, Rumford Corner, Rumford Falls (former post office at Rumford), Rumford Point, Smith Crossing, South Rumford, Virginia (formerly East Rumford), Woodrowville
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Andover, Bethel, Hanover, Mexico, Milton Township, Newry, Peru, Roxbury
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Rumford
Military Records
Rumford Militia Officers, 1817-1843
World War I Soldiers Index: Rumford
Newspapers
Maine Newspapers at Internet Archive — Search the Rumford Citizen (1906-1908)
Obituary Collection: Rumford Falls Times [Ancestry.com]
Vital Records
Rumford Intentions of Marriage, 1801-1889
Miscellaneous Resources
History of the Rumford Falls Baptist Church
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Rumford, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Rumford
Bibliography
_____, 1906 Directory of Rumford, Mexico and Dixfield, Maine (Auburn, Me.: Merrill & Webber, 1906)
______, "Rumford Falls, Maine: The Coming City," Lewiston Saturday Journal, Supplement, 26 Sept. 1891
Labonté, Youville, comp., Marriages of St. John, Rumford, Me (1866-1939) and of St. Theresa, Mexico, Me. (1927-1939) (Auburn, Me.: Y. Labonte, [1995?])
Lapham, William Berry, History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine: from its first settlement in 1779 to the present time (Augusta Me.: Press of the Maine Farmer, 1890)
Martin, Stuart F., New Pennacook Folks: A Historical Record of the Town of Rumford and the People who Lived Here (Rumford Point, Me.: S. Martin, 1980)
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