Hiram, Oxford County

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

County

Oxford County (set off from York County in 1805)

Incorporated

1807 as a district from Hiram Plantation; incorporated in 1814 as a town

Previous Designations

Great Ossipee

The town comprises Wadsworth's Grant, Cutler's Lower Grant, and Prescott's Grant

Boundary Changes

Parts of Baldwin were annexed in 1821 and 1844

Part of Brownfield was annexed in 1852

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Bridgton Junction (former railroad station), Durgintown, East Hiram, Hiram Village (Hiram Bridge), Rankins Mill, South Hiram, Wadsworth (former post office)

Bibliography

Clemons, Hubert W., A Bicentennial History of Hiram, Maine, 1776-1976 ([Hiram, Me.?: Hiram Bicentennial Committee], 1976)

Clemons, Hubert W., History of the First Universalist Church, Hiram, Maine, 1834-1979 ([Hiram, Me.: The First Universalist Church], 1979)

Cotton, Raymond C., By the toss of a coin: an abridged and updated history of the town of Hiram (Hiram, Me.: Hiram Historical Society, 1983 (Denmark, Me.: Cardinal Printing Co.))

Cotton, Raymond C., Hog reaves, field drivers, and tything men: the birth pains of the town of Hiram (Hiram, Me.: Hiram Historical Society, 1983 (Denmark, Me.: Cardinal Printing Co.))

Hammond, Donna M., Hiram: Lest We Forget (Hiram, Me.: Hiram Historical Society, 2001)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, compiler, The Town Register, 1907: Brownfield, Denmark, Hiram and Porter (Brunswick, Me.: H. E. Mitchell Co., 1907)

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

Teg, William, Hiram (Cornish, Maine: Webb-Smith Printing Co., c1941)

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