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Oxford County, Maine

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104historic places
—earliest paper
1805formed
57,777pop. 2020
284cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 104 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Rumford, Bethel, Fryeburg.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

67 of 104 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

104 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Albany Town HouseAlbany TownshipBuilding2007
Andover Hook and Ladder Company BuildingAndoverBuilding2001
Andover Public LibraryAndoverBuilding1981
Barrows-Steadman HomesteadFryeburgBuilding1982
Bell Hill MeetinghouseOtisfieldBuilding2003
Bell Hill SchoolOtisfiledBuilding2003
Bennett BridgeWilson MillsStructure1970
Bennett, Nathaniel and Elizabeth, HouseNorwayBuilding1996
Brick SchoolParisBuilding2017
Brickett PlaceStowBuilding1982
Broad Street Historic DistrictBethelDistrict1977
Broad Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)BethelDistrict1990
Camp CinnamonNorwayBuilding2019
Center Meeting House and CommonOxfordDistrict1997
Chase, Squire, HouseFryeburgBuilding1979
Church of the New JerusalemFryeburgBuilding1986
Churchill BridgeBuckfieldStructure1994
Cole BlockBethelBuilding1998
Deacon Hutchins HouseRumfordBuilding1979
Deering Memorial United Methodist ChurchParisBuilding2008
District No. 1 SchoolhouseFryeburgBuilding1984
DreamhomeBryant PondDistrict1996
Eastman Hill Rural Historic DistrictCenter LovellDistrict1993
First Universalist Society of West SumnerSumnerBuilding2002
Fives CourtLovellBuilding2017
Forest LodgeUptonDistrict2008
Foster Family HomeNewryDistrict1994
Fryeburg Registry of DeedsFryeburgBuilding1987
Fryeburg Town House, FormerFryeburg CenterBuilding1992
Gehring ClinicBethelBuilding1976
Gilead Railroad StationGileadBuilding2024
Greenwood Cattle PoundGreenwoodStructure2007
Greenwood Town Hall, FormerLocke MillsBuilding2001
Hall HouseBethelBuilding2002
Hall, Enoch, HouseBuckfieldBuilding1993
Hemlock BridgeFryeburg CenterStructure1970
Hershey Plow Company BuildingSouth ParisBuilding1990
Hubbard-Cotton StoreHiramBuilding1990
Hutchins, Moses, HouseLovellBuilding2003
Irish, J. & O., StoreHartfordBuilding1983
Long, Zadoc, Free LibraryBuckfieldBuilding1994
Lovejoy BridgeSouth AndoverStructure1970
Lovell Meeting HouseLovellBuilding2014
Lovell Village ChurchLovellBuilding1986
Lower Meeting House and East Bethel CemeteryBethelBuilding2013
Lower Sunday River SchoolNewryBuilding1978
Main Street Historic DistrictFryeburgDistrict1991
Maine Archaeological Survey site 21.26LovellSite1997
Mann, Arthur L., Memorial LibraryWest ParisBuilding1989
Mason, Dr. Moses, HouseBethelBuilding1972
McLaughlin House and GardenSouth ParisDistrict2000
McWain-Hall HouseWaterfordBuilding1987
Mechanic InstituteRumfordBuilding1980
Merrill-Poor HouseAndoverBuilding1976
Middle Intervale Meeting House and CommonBethelDistrict1998
Municipal BuildingRumfordBuilding1980
North Waterford Congregational ChurchNorth WaterfordBuilding1986
Norway Historic DistrictNorwayDistrict1988
Nutting Homestead, TheOtisfieldBuilding1974
Osgood Family HouseFryeburgBuilding1990
Otisfield Town House (Former)OtisfieldBuilding2005
Otisfield Town PoundOtisfieldStructure2019
Oxford Congregational Church and CemeteryOxfordDistrict1994
Paris Hill Historic DistrictParis HillDistrict1973
Paris Public LibrarySouth ParisBuilding1989
Parsons, Marion, HouseFryeburgBuilding1987
Peabody TavernGileadBuilding1976
Philbrook, John M., HouseBethelBuilding1995
Philbrook, Samuel D., HouseBethelBuilding1995
Porter Old MeetinghousePorterBuilding1973
Porter-Parsonfield BridgePorterStructure1970
Record, E.C. and M.I., HomesteadBuckfieldBuilding2011
Rivercroft FarmFryeburgDistrict2008
Robinson-Parsons FarmParisBuilding1982
Rumford Center Meeting HouseRumfordBuilding2024
Rumford Commercial Historic DistrictRumfordDistrict2017
Rumford Falls I-IV SiteSouth RumfordSite1992
Rumford Falls Paper Company Historic DistrictRumfordDistrict2024
Rumford Falls Power Company BuildingRumfordBuilding1980
Rumford Falls V SiteSouth RumfordSite1992
Rumford Point Congregational ChurchRumfordBuilding1985
Rumford Public LibraryRumfordBuilding1989
Sargent, Levi, HouseOtisfieldBuilding1987
Soldiers Memorial LibraryHiramBuilding2008
Stearns Hill FarmWest ParisDistrict2009
Stone, Elisha F., HouseSouth ParisBuilding1983
Strathglass BuildingRumfordBuilding1980
Strathglass Park DistrictRumfordDistrict1974
Sturtevant HallHebronBuilding1977
Sunday River BridgeNewryStructure1970
Town of Rumford SiteRumfordSite1992
Union ChurchBuckfieldBuilding1980
Union SchoolHartfordBuilding2018
Upton Grange No. 404 (Former)UptonBuilding2000
Vail SiteParkertownSite1980
Vail Site 81.1 (Boundary Increase)ParkertonSite1984
Wadsworth HallHiramBuilding1974
Warren, David, HouseHartfordBuilding1983
Waterford Historic DistrictWaterfordDistrict1980
Waterford Historic District (Boundary Increase)WaterfordBuilding2011
Watson, John, HouseHiramBuilding1974
West Paris Lodge No. 15, I.O.O.F.West ParisBuilding2012
Whitman Memorial LibraryBryant PondDistrict1995
Wiley, Benjamin, HouseNorth FryeburgBuilding1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Oxford was formed in 1805 (1805-03-04) from Cumberland, York.

OXFORD created by Massachusetts from CUMBERLAND and YORK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Oxford County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

58k38k18k1810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
17,63027,10438,35136,69832,62732,23837,70042,66244,22144,34548,96854,75557,777

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

284 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 284 listed
NameLatLon
Abbott Cemetery 144.08981-70.9402
Abbott Cemetery 244.09-70.94102
Abbotts Mills Cemetery44.47491-70.63918
Alden Hill Cemetery44.47848-70.25335
Alexander Wadsworth Cemetery43.83299-70.85078
Ames Cemetery44.34161-70.70524
Andover Cemetery44.63589-70.7509
Andrews Cemetery44.36541-70.51712
Asa Bearce Cemetery44.19013-70.36166
Back Kingdom Cemetery44.58985-70.50824
Bacon Paine Cemetery44.32186-70.62137
Bartlett Cemetery44.48172-70.74284
Bean Cemetery43.93401-70.79563
Bear Mountain Cemetery44.36216-70.28958
Bell Hill Cemetery44.08832-70.5604
Bemis Cemetery44.12793-70.94115
Berry Cemetery43.96962-70.81052
Bethel Riverside Cemetery44.42016-70.80585
Birds Hill Cemetery44.42339-70.69617
Bisbee Cemetery44.38726-70.42911
Bisbeetown Cemetery44.24529-70.73053
Black Mountain Cemetery44.103-70.84213
Black Mountain Cemetery44.40215-70.45402
Blaisdell Cemetery43.99145-70.7734
Blake Cemetery43.90655-70.95126
Bog Brook Cemetery44.20352-70.34951
Brackett Cemetery44.15625-70.80549
Brackett Cemetery44.49898-70.45261
Bradley Cemetery44.08451-70.95118
Brown - Johnson Cemetery43.91641-70.96176
Bryant Record Cemetery44.21299-70.42049
Buckfield Village Cemetery44.29997-70.38378
Burgess Hill Cemetery44.52053-70.49193
Burnt Meadow Cemetery43.94586-70.88406
Byron Village Cemetery44.72187-70.63083
Caldwell Cemetery44.17614-70.46344
Canton Cemetery44.43796-70.31498
Cedar Crest Cemetery44.04468-70.54386
Center Lovell Cemetery44.18358-70.88976
Chaffin Cemetery44.31689-70.37063
Chandler Cemetery44.07117-70.94451
Chandler Hill Cemetery44.43922-70.73896
Chapel Cemetery44.25134-70.65094
Chapman Cemetery44.41023-70.90439
Charles Cemetery44.09798-70.97604
Chase Cemetery44.31757-70.51001
Churchyard Cemetery44.20133-70.40799
Clemons Pond Cemetery43.86923-70.87867
Cobb Hill Road Cemetery44.07389-70.50898
Cole Cemetery43.89567-70.97686
Cole Hill Cemetery44.39923-70.63451
Cotton Cemetery43.86729-70.84479
Craigie Cemetery44.13798-70.47176
Crocker Cemetery44.29673-70.37089
Curtis Hill Cemetery44.342-70.59062
Daniel Foster Cemetery Plot43.86328-70.80296
Davis Cemetery44.38511-70.61259
Decoster Cemetery44.29579-70.32091
Deering Cemetery44.02576-70.77874
Demerritt Cemetery44.52561-70.46229
Deshon Cemetery44.48646-70.37124
Dickvale Cemetery44.48495-70.48117
Drew Cemetery44.30099-70.30434
Durgin Cemetery43.82646-70.82447
Durrell Hill Cemetery44.22497-70.47062
East Buckfield Cemetery44.29332-70.33179
East Ellis Cemetery44.53318-70.66724
East Otisfield Cemetery44.09514-70.52383
East Peru Cemetery44.4858-70.37087
East Rumford Cemetery44.52033-70.55534
Elm Vale Cemetery44.1605-70.72433
Elmwood Cemetery44.10171-70.54994
Emerson Cemetery44.18617-70.99424
Emery Cemetery43.84123-70.96766
Eustis Cemetery44.53133-70.44955
Fairview Cemetery44.20766-70.49598
Farmers Hill Cemetery44.58505-70.68368
Farrington - Morton Cemetery44.53672-70.51312
Farris - Whitman Cemetery44.17157-70.39328
Fessenden and Ingalls Cemetery43.98425-70.76848

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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