Yarmouth, Cumberland County

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County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1849 from part of North Yarmouth

Prominent Islands

Cousins Island, Littlejohn Island, Moshier Island

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Royal Junction, Sodom, Yarmouth, Yarmouth Junction

There were formerly two main villages in the town: Yarmouthville (Upper Village, Corner Village) and Yarmouth Falls Village (Lower Village)

Bibliography

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 1-2) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1877-78)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 3-4) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1879-80)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 5-6) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1881-82)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 7-8) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1883-85)

______, The Westcustogo chronicle (vol. 1, no. 1) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1885)

______, East suburban directory: for Falmouth, Cumberland, Chebeague Island, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth and Freeport, 1906-7 (Portland, Me.: Clark-Delano Co., 1906)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1925-26: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, New Gloucester, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1925)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1942-43: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1942)

Humphrey, James J., Humphrey family of Yarmouth and North Yarmouth, Maine (Yarmouth, Me.: Old Times Office, 1881)

Kaster, Katherine Prescott, Cousins and Littlejohn's islands, 1645-1893 ([Portland, Me.: Loring Printing Co., 1942?])

Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Yarmouth register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H.E. Mitchell, 1904)

Rowe, William Hutchinson, Yarmouth personages, an introduction: An attempt to revive the memory of individuals whose names were once household words in old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth (1910)

Rowe, William Hutchinson, Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936: a history (Yarmouth, Me.: unknown, 1937)