Rangeley, Franklin County
County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Census Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Franklin County (set off from Cumberland County to Oxford County in 1805, to Franklin County in 1838)
Organized
1845 as part of Dallas Plantation (name changed that year from "Plantations 2 and 3 in the first range and 2 and 3 in the second range of townships"), together with T2 R1 WBKP (now Sandy River Plantation), T2 R2 WBKP (now Dallas Plantation), and T3 R1 WBKP (now Rangeley Plantation); name changed in 1852 to Rangeley Plantation
Incorporated
1855 from a portion of Rangeley Plantation
Previous Designations
Township 3, Second Range West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (T3 R2 WBKP)
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bald Mountain, Barker (former post office), Burnells (former railroad station), Haines Landing, Indian Rock (former post office), Kamankeag, Marbles (former railroad station), Mingo Springs, Mooselookmeguntic, Mountainview, Oquossoc, Pit Track (former railroad station), Rangeley (Rangeley Village), Richardson (former post office), South Rangeley, Welchs (former railroad station)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Adamstown Township, Dallas Plantation, Davis Township, Lower Cupsuptic Township, Rangeley Plantation, Richardsontown Township
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Rangeley
Cemeteries
Census Records
1837 Census of Rangeley, (Township 3 R2 WBKP), Franklin Co., Maine
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Rangeley
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Rangeley, Franklin, Maine
Maine Memory Network: Rangeley
Maine Memory Network: Oquossoc
Bibliography
Chamberlain, Jacqueline F., Vital records of Rangeley, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2008)
Haines, Zenas Thompson, Squire Rangeley's township: recollections from a boyhood and youth on the Upper Androscoggin Lakes, 1837-1849 (Rangeley, Me.: Highlander Publ., 1970)
Hoar, J. Sherman, Pioneer days of Rangeley, Maine (Lewiston, Me.: Lewiston Journal Printshop, [1928])
Lamb, Frances Baker, Reunion of Rangeley Pioneer Families Recall Early Days," Lewiston Journal Magazine Section, 6 Aug. 1966
Priest, Gary N., History of Rangeley hotels and camps (Rangley, Me.: G. Priest, 2003)
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