Cumberland, Cumberland County

County · Incorporated · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Church Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography

County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1821 from part of North Yarmouth

Boundary Changes

Crotch (Cliff) Island was annexed by Portland in 1889

Chebeague Island was set off in 2007

Prominent Islands

Basket Island, Sturdivant Island

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Bald Hill (former post office), Cumberland, Cumberland Center, Cumberland Foreside, Cumberland Station, Muskrat Hollow, Poland Corners (former post office at Cumberland), West Cumberland, Wildwood Park

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)

Bennett, Thomas C., comp., Vital records from town reports of the town of Cumberland, Maine, 1893-1960 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c2005)

Bennett, Thomas C., comp., Vital records of Cumberland, Maine, 1701-1892 (Cumberland, Me.: Prince Memorial Library, 2009)

Bennett, Thomas C., ed., Cumberland Congregational Church History and Vital Records (Cumberland, Me.: Prince Memorial Library, 2014)

Ketover, Karen Sherman, comp., Westbrook, Maine cemeteries: plus the surrounding towns of Cumberland, Falmouth, Gorham, Portland & Windham (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, c1996)

Mitchell, H. E., The Cumberland and No. Yarmouth register, 1904 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)

Perry, T. S., A sermon preached on the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Congregational Church at Cumberland, Maine, Sept. 1st, 1878 [Ancestry.com] (Portland Me.: Globe Pub. Co., 1879)

Sweetser, Mary E., comp., History of the town of Cumberland, Maine (Yarmouth [Me.]: A.F. Tilton, [1921])

Weston, Isaac, A history of the Congregational Church and Society in Cumberland, Me. (Portland, Me.: Printed by B. Thurston, 1861)