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York County, Maine

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188historic places
—earliest paper
1652formed
211,972pop. 2020
590cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 188 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Biddeford, North Berwick, Wells.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Maine is not yet loaded on this site. Browse York titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

133 of 188 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

188 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alfred Historic DistrictAlfredDistrict1983
Alfred Shaker Historic DistrictAlfredDistrict2001
Austin-Hennessey HomesteadWellsBuilding1979
Ayer, Caleb R., HouseCornishBuilding2002
Badger, Samuel, MonumentKittery ForesideObject1998
Barrell HomesteadYork CornerBuilding1976
Berwick AcademySouth BerwickDistrict1978
Berwick Academy Historic District (Boundary Increase)South BerwickDistrict1996
Berwick High SchoolBerwickBuilding2012
Biddeford City HallBiddefordBuilding1973
Biddeford Main Street Historic DistrictBiddefordDistrict2009
Biddeford-Saco Mills Historic District (Additional Documentation)BiddefordDistrict2008
Biddeford-Saco Mills Historic District (Boundary Increase)BiddefordDistrict2022
Blazo-Leavitt HouseParsonsfieldBuilding1982
Boon Island Light StationYorkDistrict1988
Bourne MansionKennebunkBuilding1980
Brave Boat Harbor FarmYorkDistrict2007
Bray HouseKittery PointBuilding1979
Breckinridge, Isabella, HouseYorkBuilding1983
Brewster, Royal, HouseBuxtonBuilding1975
Buxton Powder HouseBuxton CenterBuilding1976
Cape Arundel Golf ClubKennebunkportDistrict2009
Cape Arundel Summer Colony Historic DistrictKennebunkportDistrict1984
Cape Neddick Light StationYorkBuilding1985
Chase, Capt. Josiah E., Octagon HouseEast LimingtonBuilding1987
Clifford, George F., HouseCornishBuilding2010
Clock FarmKennebunkportBuilding1982
Colonial InnOgunquitDistrict2012
Conant-Sawyer CottageYork BeachBuilding1992
Conway Junction Railroad Turntable SiteSouth BerwickSite1989
Cummings Shoe FactorySouth BerwickBuilding2001
Cummings' Guest HouseOld Orchard BeachBuilding2004
Dalton, Benjamin and Abigail, HouseNorth ParsonsfieldBuilding1997
Deering, J. G., HouseSacoBuilding1982
Dennett GarrisonKitteryBuilding1978
District No. 5 SchoolAlfredBuilding2009
Division No. 9 SchoolNorth BerwickBuilding1995
Dorfield FarmWellsBuilding1979
Dudley BlockBiddefordBuilding1982
Early Post OfficeWellsBuilding1979
Eaton HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Elden's StoreBuxtonBuilding1983
Elder Grey MeetinghouseNorth WaterboroBuilding1979
Emery HomesteadSanfordBuilding1980
Emery HouseHighpineBuilding1979
Emery SchoolBiddefordBuilding2011
First Baptist ChurchWaterboroBuilding1988
First Congregational Church and ParsonageKittery PointBuilding1978
First Congregational Church and Parsonage (Boundary Increase)Kittery PointDistrict1997
First Congregational Church of BuxtonBuxtonBuilding1980
First Congregational Church, FormerWellsBuilding1991
First Parish MeetinghouseBiddefordBuilding1972
Flagg, James Montgomery, HouseBiddefordBuilding1980
Fletcher's Neck Lifesaving StationBiddeford PoolBuilding1974
Fogg, William, LibraryEliotBuilding1991
Fort McClaryKittery PointBuilding1969
Foss, Levi, HouseGoodwins MillsBuilding1984
Frisbee, Frank C., Elementary SchoolKitteryBuilding2012
Frost Garrison and HouseEliotDistrict1971
Goat Island Light StationCape PorpoiseDistrict1988
Goodale-Bourne FarmOgunquitBuilding1979
Goodale-Stevens FarmOgunquitBuilding1979
Goodall Worsted Company Alpaca Mill No. 2 - Jagger Brothers MillSanfordBuilding2025
Goodall, Louis B., Memorial LibrarySanfordBuilding2008
Goodall, Thomas, HouseSanfordBuilding1975
Goodwin, Edmund E., HouseSanfordBuilding2015
Grant Family HouseSacoBuilding1990
Graves, Abbott, HouseKennebunkportBuilding1980
Grist Mill BridgeLebanonStructure1990
Hamilton, Jonathan, House NHLSouth BerwickBuilding1970
Hancock, John, WarehouseYorkBuilding1969
Harper Family HouseLimerickBuilding1998
Hatch HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Hawkes PharmacyYork BeachBuilding1993
Hedden SiteKennebunkSite1991
Historical and Architectural Resources of Eliot, Maine MPSEliot
Hobbs, Thomas, Jr., HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1982
Holmes, Sen. John, HouseAlfredBuilding1975
Howels, William Dean, HouseKittery PointBuilding1979
Hurd, Mary R., HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Hussey Plow Company BuildingNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Isles of ShoalsKitteryDistrict1974
Jacobs Houses and StoreSacoBuilding1982
Jewett, Sarah Orne, House NHLSouth BerwickBuilding1973
Jewett-Eastman HouseSouth BerwickBuilding1983
Johnson, Dennis, Lumber Company MillWaterboroBuilding2007
Jones, John Paul, Memorial ParkKittery ForesideDistrict1998
Kennebunk High SchoolKennebunkBuilding2011
Kennebunk Historic District (Additional Documentation)KennebunkDistrict1974
Kennebunk River ClubKennebunkportBuilding1975
Kennebunkport Historic DistrictKennebunkportDistrict1976
Kezar Falls Circulating LibraryParsonsfieldBuilding2021
Lady Pepperrell House NHLKittery PointBuilding1966
Laudholm FarmWellsBuilding1983
Laudholm Farm (Boundary Increase)WellsDistrict1987
Leavitt, James, HouseWaterboro CenterBuilding2004
Libby's Colonial Tea RoomWellsBuilding2001
Libby-MacArthur HouseLimingtonBuilding1988
Limerick Upper Village Historic DistrictLimerickDistrict1984
Limington AcademyLimingtonBuilding1980
Limington Historic DistrictLimingtonDistrict1999
Lincoln SchoolActonBuilding2013
Littlefield HomesteadWellsBuilding1979
Littlefield TavernNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Littlefield-Chase FarmsteadNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Littlefield-Dustin FarmNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Littlefield-Keeping HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1979
Lord FarmWellsBuilding1979
Lord MansionKennebunkBuilding1973
Lord, Capt. Nathaniel, MansionKennebunkportBuilding1973
Lord-Dane HouseAlfredBuilding1992
Lower Alewive Historic DistrictKennebunkDistrict1994
Maine Trolley CarsKennebunkportStructure1980
Marginal WayOgunquitStructure2022
McIntire Garrison House NHLYorkBuilding1968
Memorial ChapelBerwickBuilding2018
Mill HouseOgunquitBuilding1979
Moody HomesteadYorkBuilding1975
Morison, Capt. James, HouseParsonsfieldBuilding1978
Morrell HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1976
Newfield (Willowbrook) Historic DistrictNewfieldDistrict1985
North Berwick Woolen MillNorth BerwickBuilding1983
Ocean Park Historic BuildingsOcean ParkBuilding1982
Odd Fellows-Rebekah HallCornishBuilding1983
Ogunquit Memorial LibraryOgunquitBuilding1983
Ogunquit PlayhouseOgunquitBuilding1995
Old Grist MillEast LebanonBuilding1975
Old SchoolhouseYorkBuilding1973
Old Town HouseParsonsfieldBuilding2002
Old York Gaol NHLYorkBuilding1968
Parsons-Piper-Lord-Roy FarmParsonsfieldBuilding2005
Parsonsfield SeminaryParsonsfieldBuilding1986
Paul Family FarmEliotDistrict1998
PebbledeneYork BeachBuilding1993
Pepperrell, William, HouseKittery PointBuilding1973
Perkins, Charles, HouseOgunquitBuilding1979
Pike, LeRoy F., Memorial BuildingCornishBuilding2007
Portsmouth Company Cotton Mills: Counting HouseSouth BerwickBuilding1975
Portsmouth Naval ShipyardKitteryDistrict1977
Prescott, J. L., HouseNorth BerwickBuilding1985
Rendezvous Point Burying GroundSacoSite2021
Rice Public LibraryKitteryBuilding1979
Rock RestKitteryBuilding2008
Rose, Robert, TavernYorkBuilding1975
Saco Central Fire StationSacoBuilding2013
Saco City HallSacoBuilding1979
Saco High School (old)SacoBuilding1983
Saco Historic DistrictSacoDistrict1998
Salmon Falls (East) Historic DistrictBuxtonDistrict1987
Salmon Falls (West) Historic DistrictHollisDistrict1987
Sanford Mills Historic DistrictSanfordDistrict2009
Sanford Town Hall (Former)SpringvaleBuilding2007
Seavey, A. B., HouseSacoBuilding1978
Sedgley, John, HomesteadYork CornerBuilding1976
Smith, James, HomesteadKennebunkBuilding1982
Smith-Emery HouseSpringvaleBuilding1998
South Berwick Village Historic DistrictSouth BerwickDistrict2010
Spiller Farm Paleoindian SiteWellsSite2003
St. Andre's ParishBiddefordDistrict2015
St. Joseph's SchoolBiddefordBuilding1983
St. Peter's By-The-Sea Protestant Episcopal ChurchCape NeddickBuilding1999
Stage Island MonumentBiddefordStructure2019
Staples InnOld Orchard BeachBuilding1987
Summer Street BlockBiddefordBuilding2024
SunnycroftLimerickBuilding1984
Tarr, John, HouseBiddefordBuilding1980
Temple, TheOld Orchard BeachBuilding1975
Thacher-Goodale HouseSacoBuilding1976
Timber PointBiddefordDistrict2016
Traip, Robert and Louisa, HouseKittery ForesideBuilding1998
U.S. CustomhouseKennebunkportBuilding1974
U.S. Post OfficeBiddefordBuilding1973
US Post Office-Sanford MainSanfordBuilding1986
Vines, Richard, MonumentBiddefordObject2022
Wallingford HallKennebunkBuilding2004
Waterboro Grange, No. 432WaterboroBuilding2012
Way Way General StoreSacoBuilding1995
Welch, Andrew, HomesteadParsonsfieldBuilding2002
Wells Baptist Church ParsonageWellsBuilding1979
Wells HomesteadWellsBuilding1979
Wentworth, Mark F. and Eliza J., HouseKittery ForesideBuilding1998
West Lebanon Historic DistrictWest LebanonDistrict1975
Whaleback Light StationKittery PointStructure1988
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, HouseHollis CenterBuilding1977
Winn HouseOgunquitBuilding1979
Wood Island Light StationBiddeford PoolDistrict1988
York Cliffs Historic DistrictYorkDistrict1984
York Historic DistrictYorkDistrict1973

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

York was formed in 1652 (1652-11-20) from unknown / original county.

Massachusetts created YORKSHIRE (now YORK) in Maine after southern Maine towns acknowledged Mass. jurisdiction to territory within the new boundaries it declared on 26 May 1652. Claim conflicted with 1635 grant of Maine to Ferdinando Gorges.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

York County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

212k120k29k179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
28,89237,89646,28354,03462,10762,25764,88570,69682,55093,54199,402139,666186,742211,972

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

590 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 590 listed
NameLatLon
Abagail Patch Cemetery43.5813-70.89892
Abbott Mountain Road Cemetery43.59426-70.82756
Abial Jones Cemetery43.61499-70.72045
Adams Lot43.12578-70.71555
Adams Lot43.23946-70.60888
Adams Lot43.12132-70.64741
Albert Perkins Lot43.22418-70.62738
Alfred Perkins Lot43.22426-70.62734
Allen Lot43.18977-70.6141
Andrew Williams Lot43.16968-70.71171
Arthur Came Lot43.1704-70.74744
Arundel Cemetery43.38147-70.47505
Austin Lot Cemetery43.1378-70.67264
Avery Cemetery43.5339-70.7597
Badger Fernald Cemetery43.08675-70.74491
Bald Hill Graveyard43.34431-70.68049
Baptist Society Cemetery43.6852-70.79178
Barker Cemetery43.79714-70.83993
Barrell Cemetery43.14316-70.70469
Baston Lot Cemetery43.28245-70.68686
Batchelder Family Cemetery43.55841-70.85748
Beal Cemetery43.59033-70.80739
Beal Lot43.20499-70.65865
Bear Hill Cemetery43.59536-70.61404
Benjamin Goodwin Cemetery43.49691-70.81267
Bennett Moulton Sweat Cemetery43.42442-70.76233
Bennett Moulton Swett Cemetery43.42423-70.76207
Bickford Morse Lot43.47782-70.69475
Blaisdell Lot43.14887-70.71529
Blaisdell Lot43.13465-70.68141
Bodwell Cemetery43.53877-70.84661
Bonny Eagle Cemetery43.69196-70.59562
Bonny Eagle Cemetery43.68305-70.62001
Boothby Cemetery43.5552-70.84029
Boston Cemetery43.57115-70.87423
Boston Lot43.25489-70.64174
Boston Lot Cemetery43.23879-70.64695
Brackett Lot43.6749-70.73101
Bracy Cemetery43.21253-70.66515
Bradbury Lot43.59506-70.61144
Bradford Ross Cemetery43.5067-70.83059
Bragdon - Hooper Cemetery43.48959-70.81625
Bragdon Cemetery43.53097-70.85059
Bragdon Cemetery 4543.15999-70.70302
Breckinridge Lot43.14057-70.69002
Brooks Cemetery43.14093-70.65728
Brooks Lot43.13852-70.69037
Brown Blaisdell Lot43.24111-70.74164
Brown Plot43.08723-70.7301
Burbank Taylor Cemetery43.47843-70.58779
Buzzell Cemetery43.51405-70.80587
Caleb Carpenter Cemetery43.63512-70.74685
Came Cemetery43.67763-70.60161
Cape Neddick Baptist Church Cemetery43.19361-70.61765
Cape Porpoise Cemetery43.36912-70.44444
Captain Benjamin Fernald Lot43.08468-70.72112
Captain James Nowell Lot43.15842-70.70021
Captain Joseph Junkins Lot43.17353-70.71423
Captain Simon Dennett Lot43.45997-70.60689
Card Lot43.19357-70.64941
Carleton Ham Cemetery43.64152-70.94454
Carpenter Cemetery 243.62434-70.75936
Carroll Cemetery43.45958-70.8394
Carter Lot43.14853-70.71842
Caswell Barton Lot43.18732-70.60703
Chadbourne Cemetery43.52052-70.68234
Chadbourne Cemetery43.4074-70.77721
Chapman Cemetery43.45512-70.79007
Charles Bragdon Family Lot43.19707-70.62269
Charles Chauncey Lot43.08519-70.6929
Charles Sprague Cemetery43.62428-70.83649
Chase - Newbegin Cemetery43.57889-70.7571
Chase - Shaw Lot43.18797-70.65441
Chase - Stevens Cemetery43.61965-70.75624
Chase Lot43.19053-70.64902
Chase Lot43.19224-70.64688
Chauncey Cutts Cemetery43.09274-70.65933
Chellis Cemetery43.57198-70.84917
Chick - Picott Plot43.1229-70.72555
Chick Cemetery43.52558-70.80612
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Brickyard Landing43.14398-70.67644
Newichawanoc43.26592-70.8645

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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