Buckfield, Oxford County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1793 from Bucktown Plantation
Previous Designations
Bucktown; No. 5 (Number Five)
Boundary Changes
Land set off to Hebron when that town's boundaries were corrected in 1804, and to Paris in 1828
Eight estates in Hartford were annexed in 1856, and additional land in 1862
Part of Sumner was annexed in 1856
"By an act of the legislature this year [1865], Stephen Spaulding of Sumner, together with his real estate, was set off from that town and annexed to Buckfield." [Cole and Whitman, History of Buckfield (1915), p. 427] As Spaulding was enumerated in Buckfield in 1860, it is possible that the 1856 annexation is here referred to
Villages, Locations and Settlements
East Buckfield (formerly Federal Corner), Buckfield (formerly Record's Mills, Buckfield Mills, Buckfield Village), North Buckfield, West Buckfield (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Hartford, Hebron, Paris, Sumner, Turner, West Paris
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Buckfield
Cemeteries
Directions to the Small Cemeteries in Buckfield, Maine
Vital Records
Necrology of Mrs. Emma A. Mason of Buckfield, 1867-1901
Miscellaneous Resources
History of the Buckfield Baptist Church
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Buckfield, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Buckfield
Digital Maine: Buckfield Books
Maine Memory Network: Buckfield
Bibliography
______, A Pictorial History of Buckfield, Maine, 1776-1976 (Buckfield, Me.: The Bicentennial Committee, 1976)
______, History of Buckfield, Maine 1900-2000 (Buckfield, Me.: Buckfield Historical Society, c2001)
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
Cole, Alfred, and Charles F. Whitman, A history of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine : from the earliest explorations to the close of the year 1900 (Buckfield, Me.: [s.n.], 1915)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, Woodstock, Sumner and Buckfield Town Register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me., The H. E. Mitchell co., 1905)
Washburn, Julia Constantia Chase, Records of the descendants of Rev. Nathaniel Chase, of Buckfield, Maine : with a brief account of his ancestors : also records of some of the descendants of Edmund Chase of Minot, Maine (Augusta, Me.: T.F. Murphy's Job Printing Office, 1878)
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