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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… in Byron? What’s the story of the Buckfield and Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach lines that used to run hither and thither? What was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… Number Two (now known as Milton Plantation), Rumford, Jay, Hartford, and Sumner. It is a tradition here that Merrill Knight and Daniel Lunt, both…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… which would be placed in the north yard of the Rumford Mill. This addition would require many alterations and additions to processes though out the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"Weston & Nghia Ha Images contributed by Rumford Area Historical Society The pictures to the left show the use of piers and booms that were built in…"

Bridgton Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… schedule a Funeral Director to meet the train in Rumford to pick up his body. Arrangements were made for John to be buried in the family plot in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… filled for a trip to White Cap in neighboring Rumford. This was the most famous berrying place around and bushels of berries were harvested there…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"… along the Androscoggin River was built and called Rumford Road, now River Road. A rambling vernacular Greek Revival farmstead was built on this…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Barnabas’s Episcopal Church in Rumford of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in Portland."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Rumford Smith. They followed a west-north-west compass route and crossed the Sandy River at about what we now call the New Sharon Village."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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