Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Church Records · Vital Records · Military Records · Newspapers · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1785 from Pearsontown Plantation

Previous Designations

Hobbstown; Pearsontown; Piersontown

Boundary Changes

Part of Buxton was annexed in 1824

Land was set off to Gorham in 1831 and 1839, and to Raymond in 1869

Frye Island was set off and incorporated in 1998

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Bonny Eagle, Dow Corner, East Standish (later Whiterock, a former post office), Elmwood, Harmon Beach, Higgins Corner, Richville, Sebago Lake, South Standish, Standish (Standish Corner), Standish Neck, Steep Falls, Two Trails, Wards Cove, Whites Bridge

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Baldwin, Buxton, Frye Island, Gorham, Hollis, Limington, Sebago, Windham

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Standish

Cemeteries

Chadbourne Cemetery

Dolloff Rd. Cemetery

Friendship Cemetery

Hamlin Cemetery

Lowell Cemetery

Old Dow's Corner Cemetery

Paine Cemetery

Pond Road Cemetery

Rand Cemetery

Church Records

Standish, Maine. Church of Christ Records, 1768-1870

Vital Records

Standish Church Marriage Records, 1796-1859

Births in Standish, 1897-1902, 1904-1944

Standish Marriages, 1797-1850

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Standish

Newspapers

Lakes Region Weekly

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Standish, Cumberland, Maine

Official Website: Town of Standish

Maine Memory Network: Standish

Bibliography

Davis, Walter Goodwin, The ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836 : wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Mass.: Stanhope Press, 1924)

Davis, Walter Goodwin, The ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse, 1754-1837, of Standish, Maine (Portland, Me.: Anthoensen Press, 1949)

Jones, Herbert G., Sebago Lake Land in History, Legend & Romance; (1949)

Maxwell, Grace Blake, comp., Vital records of Standish, Maine (Hallowell, Me.: G. B. Maxwell, [19--])

Merrill, Virginia T., comp., Surname index to early families of Standish, Maine by Albert J. Sears ( Solon, Me.: V.T. Merrill, [1996?)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Standish, Baldwin, Cornish, Limerick, Limington, 1905 (Brunswick, Me., The H. E. Mitchell Co., 1905)

Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts, Saco Valley settlements and families: historical, biographical, genealogical, traditional, and legendary... (Portland, Me.: G.T. Ridlon, 1895)

Sears, Albert J., Early families of Standish, Maine (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1991)