Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)

Incorporated

1816

Previous Designations

Township No. 5, Fifth Range North of Waldo Patent (T5 R5 NWP); Monmouth Academy Grant

Boundary Changes

That part of the town north of the Sebasticook River was set off to form Cambridge in 1834

Land was set off to St. Albans in 1862, but reannexed when the act was repealed in 2002

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Ripley, Rogers' Mills (later Ripley Mills, former post office at Ripley), Todds Corner, West Ripley

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Cambridge, Dexter, Harmony, St. Albans

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Ripley

Vital Records

Ripley Vital Records, 1918-19

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Ripley

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Ripley, Somerset, Maine

Ripley Maine

Bibliography

______, The East Somerset County Register, 1911-1912 (Auburn, Me.: Chatto & Turner, 1912)

______, Ripley sesqui-centennial, 1816-1966: program (Ripley, Me. ; Sesqui-centennial Program Committee, 1966)

Blaney, Sandra Wintle, comp., Entering Ripley ([S.l.: s.n.], 2002 (Dexter, Me.: Dexter Print Shop))