Rumford, Maine Genealogy Project
Rumford, Oxford County, Maine Genealogy Project
Welcome
to Rumford, Oxford County, Maine
If you have any reference material on Rumford, or
have any genealogical information that you'd like to see added to this
page, please send me a GedCom.
The Town of Rumford is situated in beautiful western Maine,
near the center of Oxford County, about 75 miles north of Portland,
about 20 miles from South Paris, the shire town of Oxford County, and
about 45 miles northwest of the State Capital at Augusta.
The 175 mile Androscoggin River, known in the early records as
the "Great River", flows about 11 miles from west to east through the
town. At the end of the run is the "Great Falls", the highest falls
east of Niagara Falls in New York. First known as Pennacook Falls, than
Rumford Falls.
The other rivers in town are the Ellis River, which
flows south from Andover, and enters the Androscoggin at Rumford Point.
The Swift River is more or less the dividing line between Mexico and
Rumford and enters the Androscoggin across from the mill. The Concord
River is really not much more than a brook, but it had enough water to
supply power to the small mills at what was known as Abbott Mills.
|
Home of the former Oxford Paper Company, at
one time the largest paper company, under one roof, in the world, now
the NewPage Corp. |
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(1914-1996) |
Hometown of Edmund S. Muskie, former U.S.
Secretary of State; Governor of the State of Maine, 1954-1958; U.S.
Senator, 1958-1980; Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1968,
and Presidential candidate in the 1972 in the Democratic primary
elections. |
New Pennacook was incorporated as the Town of Rumford by the
General Court of Massachusetts, as the 123rd town in the District of
Maine, on February 21, 1800. By this time there were several
settlements within the township. Rumford, Rumford Center, Rumford
Point, Rumford Falls, North Rumford, South Rumford, East Rumford, Red
Hill, Hall Hill and Eaton Hill.
I have done a Genealogy Decendent/Ancestry search on
some of the surnames of the early settlers for you to look at. So, if
you find any errors please let me know, and you're more than welcome to
add to what I have here, or fill in some of the missing blanks. Send me
a GEDCOM of your information and I'll add it to the site.
The
following are the surnames of settlers that were here as of 1800.
ABBOTT, CAPEN, DOLLY, DOLLOFF, EATON, ELLIOTT,
EMERSON, FARNUM, FELT, GODWIN, GOSS, GRAHAM, HARPER, HEMMINGWAY,
HINKSON, HOWE, KEYES, KIMBALL, KNIGHT, KYLE, LUFKIN, MANUEL, MARTIN,
McALLISTER, MOORE, PAGE, POWERS, PUFFER, PUTNAM, RICHARDSON, RIPLEY,
ROLFE, SEGAR, STEVENS, STONE, SWETT, TAYLOR, VIRGIN, WHITTEMORE, WOOD
PLEASE
NOTE that due to a disability, I am no longer able to do
research and am unable to answer e-mails. I am going leave the site
open for you to use. Good
hunting and remember, I have not been able to find sources for some of
the genealogy data within, thus the information should be questionable,
until you have verified it yourself.
Surname
Index
Some info about the author History of Rumford
Rumford US Census Rumford Queries
1858 Map of Rumford
Some Pictures of
Rumford Links
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