New Sharon, Franklin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Franklin County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Franklin County in 1838)
Incorporated
1794 from Unity Plantation
Previous Designations
Unity; Colburn's Town
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Industry in 1813, and part of that town was annexed in 1852
Part of Mercer was annexed in 1841
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bullen Mills, East New Sharon, New Sharon, Weeks Mills
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Chesterville, Farmington, Industry, Mercer, Rome, Starks, Vienna
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: New Sharon
Cemeteries
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: New Sharon
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: New Sharon, Franklin, Maine
Official Website: Town of New Sharon
Digital Maine: New Sharon Books
Maine Memory Network: New Sharon
Bibliography
______, The Town register, Farmington, Wilton, Chesterville, New Sharon: 1910 (Brunswick, Me.: Maine Map & Register Co., 1910)
Bonney, Forrest, ed., Pictorial history of early New Sharon, Maine: village and town (New Sharon, Me.: New Sharon Historical Society, 1988)
Hatch, William Collins, A history of the town of Industry, Franklin County, Maine, from the earliest settlement in 1787 down to the present time, embracing the cessions of New Sharon, New Vineyard, Anson, and Stark (Farmington, Me.: Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co., 1893)
Kearney, Marie, and Pamela Bonney, New Sharon remembered (New Sharon, Me.: New Sharon Historical Society (Wilton, Me.: Wilton Printed Products), 1989, c1981)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., New Sharon register, 1903 ([Brunswick, Me.: The H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1903])
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