Saco, York County
County · Incorporated · Reincorporated · Incorporated as a City · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Cemeteries · Maps · Newspapers · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Incorporated
1653 as the town of Saco, which included within its bounds the present city of Biddeford; burned in 1690; reincorporated in 1718 as Biddeford
Reincorporated
1762 from part of Biddeford as the district of Pepperellborough; incorporated as a town in 1775; name changed in 1805 to Saco
Incorporated as a City
1867
Boundary Changes
Part of Scarborough was annexed in 1841
Land was set off to form Old Orchard (now Old Orchard Beach) in 1883, and additional land was set off to that town in 1927
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bay View (with Ferry Beach formerly called West Old Orchard Beach), Boothby Park, Camp Ellis, Ferry Beach, Kinney Shores, North Saco, Saco, The Heath
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Biddeford, Buxton, Dayton, Old Orchard Beach, Scarborough
Cemeteries
Epitaphs from a Saco Burying Ground
Maps
Newspapers
Biddeford-Saco Journal - 1884-1977 [Newspapers.com]
Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier
Maine Obituaries: Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier
Biddeford Historic Newspaper Archive - from Digital Archives of McArthur Public Library
Vital Records
Early Vital Records of Saco and Biddeford
Pepperellborough (Saco) Marriage Intentions and Marriages, 1768-1775
Saco Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1796-1806
Saco Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1806-1818
Saco Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1818-1832
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Saco
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Saco, York, Maine
Official Website: City of Saco
Bibliography
______, The Business Directory of Saco and Biddeford, for the year 1849 (Saco, Me.: L. O. Cowan and A. A. Hanscom, 1849)
______, First book of records of the town of Pepperellborough, now the city of Saco (Portland, Me.: Thurston Print, 1896)
______, 1913 Biddeford and Saco Directory (Boston, Mass.: W. A. Greenough & Co., 1913)
______, First Book of Records of the First Church in Pepperrellborough (now Saco, Maine) (Saco, Me.: York Institute, 1914)
______, Ship registers and enrollments of Saco, Maine, 1791-1915 (Rockland, Me.: National Archives Project, 1942)
Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Thomas Lewis and his wife, Elizabeth Marshall, of Saco, Maine (Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Jan.-Apr., 1947)
Deering, Frank Cutter, The proprietors of Saco: and a brief sketch of the years following the first settlement of the town: also a little about an old bank in Saco, Maine (Saco, Me.: Priv. print., York National Bank, 1931)
Deering, Frank Cutter, Index to History of Biddeford and Saco, written by George Folsom, 1830 (1922)
Fairfield, Roy P., Sands, spindles, and steeples: a history of Saco, Maine (Portland, Me.: House of Falmouth, c1956)
Folsom, George, History of Saco and Biddeford: with notices of other early settlements, and of proprietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia (Saco Me.: Printed by A.C. Putnam, 1830)
Greene, Frances., Material for a genealogy of the Hill family of Biddeford-Saco, Maine (Bridgton, Me., 1961)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Saco register with Old Orchard, 1906 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)
Owen, Daniel E., Old Times in Saco: a brief monograph on local events (Saco, Me.: Biddeford Times Print., 1891)
Page, Col. George W., The descendants of Robart Page of the king's house : the probable English origins, ancestors, and relatives of George Page of Brandford, Connecticut and Thomas Page of Saco in the province of Maine (Portsmouth, N. H., 1992) [See also Supplement]
Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts, Saco Valley settlements and families: historical, biographical, genealogical, traditional, and legendary... (Portland, Me.: G.T. Ridlon, 1895)
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