Woodstock, Oxford County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemetery Records · Military Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1815
Previous Designations
Township No. 3 (Number Three)
The town is composed mostly of Dummer Academy and Gorham Academy Grants, and Hamlin's Gore (sometimes incorrectly called "Hamlin's Grant")
Boundary Changes
Two lots were set off to Paris in 1825; an additional estate was set off to that town in 1827, and partly reannexed in 1841, along with another half-lot; a portion of the estate set off in 1827 was set off again in 1880
Part of Milton Plantation (now Milton Township) was annexed in 1853
Hamlin's Gore Plantation (organized in 1826) was annexed in 1872
One lot from Greenwood was annexed in 1893
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bryant Pond (Bryant's Pond), North Woodstock (Pinhook), Sigotch, Skunk's Misery, South Woodstock, Stephen's Mills (or Woodstock Corner, a defunct village)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Bethel, Greenwood, Milton Township, Peru, Sumner, West Paris
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Woodstock
Cemetery Records
Curtis Hill Cemetery, Woodstock
Dudley Hill Cemetery, Woodstock
Hamlin's Gore Cemetery, Woodstock
Luther Briggs Cemetery, Woodstock
Luther Whitman Cemetery, Woodstock
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Woodstock
Miscellaneous Resources
Woodstock Prohibition Vote, 1845
History of the North Paris Baptist Church
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Woodstock, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Woodstock
Maine Memory Network: Woodstock
Maine Memory Network: Bryant Pond
Bibliography
______, The Town Register: Bethel, Greenwood, Hanover, Woodstock, Gilead (Brunswick, Me.: The Maine Map & Register Co., 1911)
Bacon, Ralph M., Historical Sketch of Woodstock, Maine (typescript)
Emery, Ruby C., Pinhook and Lines ([Bryant Pond, Me.: R.C. Emery], 1980)
Emery, Ruby C., History of Woodstock, Maine, 1797-1988 ([Bryant Pond, Me.: R.C. Emery], 1988)
Emery, Ruby C., Hamlin's Gore, 1816-1973 (Woodstock, Me.: Woodstock Historical Society, 2001)
Gallison, Jefferson C., "Old Times in Woodstock," (Norway, Me.: Oxford County Advertiser, 1899-1900, copied by Ruby C. Emery in 1976)
Lapham, William Berry, The History of Woodstock, Maine: with family sketches and an appendix (Portland Me.: S. Berry, printer, 1882)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, Woodstock, Sumner and Buckfield Town Register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me., The H. E. Mitchell co., 1905)
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