Fairfield, Somerset County
County · Incorporated · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Incorporated
1788 from Fairfield Plantation
Boundary Changes
Land set off to Norridgewock in 1834 and 1841, to Bloomfield (later annexed to Skowhegan) in 1858
An island was annexed from Benton in 1873
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Fairfield (formerly Kendall's Mills), Fairfield Center, Fairfield Corners (former post office), Good Will Farm (former railroad station), Hinckley (formerly East Fairfield), Holway Corner, Larone (formerly Winslow's Mills), North Fairfield (formerly Blacknell's Mills), Nyes Corner, Otis Hill (former railroad station), Shawmut (formerly Somerset Mills), Toulouse Corner
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Benton, Clinton, Norridgewock, Oakland, Skowhegan, Smithfield, Waterville
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Fairfield
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Fairfield
Miscellaneous Resources
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Fairfield, Somerset, Maine
Official Website: Town of Fairfield
Maine Memory Network: Fairfield
Maine Memory Network: Hinckley
Bibliography
______, 200th anniversary history: town of Fairfield, Maine, 1788-1988 ([Fairfield, Me.: The Fairfield Historical Society, 1988] (Farmington, Me.: Heritage Printing Co.))
______, 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)
Brown, Christine R., comp., Vital records of Fairfield, Maine: births, marriages and deaths ([Lenior City, Tenn.]: C.R. Brown, 1980)
Brown, Christine R., ed., Lawry Bros. funeral records, August 11, 1885-Nov. 26, 1923, Fairfield, Maine (Lenoir City, Tenn.: C.R. Brown, 1975)
Duren, Gladys, comp., Gleanings of the past and present of Fairfield, Maine ([Fairfield, Me.: s.n., 1963])
Lemieux, Donald R., comp., Fairfield, Maine: necrology of French Canadiens and Franco- Americans (Fairfield, Me.: D. R. Lemieux, 1980)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Fairfield register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me., The H. E. Mitchell publishing company, 1904)
Mitchell, H. E., The Town Register: Clinton, Benton and Fairfield, 1909 (Augusta, Me.: Mitchell Pub. Co., 1909)
Winslow, Will P., Early history of Larone: events of interest related: notable incidents in the life of the first inhabitants: old landmarks ([Maine: s.n.], 1918)
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