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Modern town borders in Franklin County, Maine. Towns with records are named in black. Unincorporated green places usually lack records.

Plantations:  Coplin Plantation | Dallas Plantation | Rangeley Plantation | Sandy River Plantation.  For further details see Maine plantations.

Extinct Towns and Plantations:^[2]  Berlin | Freeman | Little River Plantation | Madrid | Number 6 Plantation | Perkins | Salem^[3]

Unorganized territories.  For further details see Maine townships.

• East Central Franklin
  • Freeman
  • Salem
  • Madrid
  • Twp 4 R1 Bingham's Kennebec Pur. W. of the Kennebec Riv. (Mt. Abram)
  • Township 1 R2 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Redington)
• North Franklin
  • Township 2 R3 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Lang)
  • Township 3 R3 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Davis)
  • Township 2 R4 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Tim Pond)
  • Township 3 R4 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Stetsontown)
  • Township 1 R5 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Jim Pond)
  • Township 2 R5 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Alder Stream)
  • Township 3 R5 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Seven Ponds)
  • Township 1 R6 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Kibby)
  • Township 2 R6 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Chain of Ponds)
  • Township 3 R6 West of Bingham's Kennebec Pur. (Massachusetts Gore)
  • Township 1 R7 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Skinner)
  • Township 2 R7 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Merrill Strip)
  • Gore N. of Twp 2 & 3 R6 W. of Bingham's Kennebec Pur. (Coburn Gore)
  • Township 1 R8 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Lowelltown)
  • Township 2 R8 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Beattie)
  • Gore N. of Twp 1 R8 West of Bingham's Kennebec Pur. (Gorham Gore)
• South Franklin
  • Washington
  • Perkins
• West Central Franklin
  • Township 6 North of Weld
  • Township E
  • Township D
• Wyman
  • Township 4 R3 Bingham's Kennebec Purchase West of the Kennebec River (Wyman)

Communities   • Chisholm   • Farmington   • Wilton

Neighboring Counties

Androscoggin | Kennebec | Oxford | Somerset | Quebec counties: Frontenac County

Resources

Cemeteries

Avon Valley Road Cemetery

Take the Avon Valley Road, off Route 4, in Avon. Go to the old school house. Cemetery is about 1/2 mile beyond the schoolhouse on the left. Can be seen from the road.

Day Mountain Cemetery

Located on Day Mountain Road near Avon/Temple Line. In Terrible Condition No Roads in to it. Must Hike About 2 1/2 Miles

Knott Burial Plot

On the left North of the Townhouse 1.4 miles South of Phillips Townline

Mile Square Cemetery

Dates after 1986 taken from Franklin Journal

Mount Blue Cemetery

Going North on Route #4 Take Left at Town House. Go 1.8 Miles Up The Hill. Cemetery On Left in Good Condition

Pease-Thompson Cemetery

Located On Route #4 Just South Of The Town House

Spinney Cementery

Cemetery located on State Route 4 about 1 mile West of the Strong Town line.

Sprague-Howland Cemetery

Leave Phillips On Route #149 South Toward Strong, Maine. Go 2.6 Miles, Cemetery Down Over the Banking On Right. In Pasture of "Old Voter Farm"

Carthage Cemetery

Leave Weld Village heading toward Carthage. Go about 3 miles to Podunk Pond Rd. Take this Rd. for about 3 miles onto Storer Hill. The Cemetery is on the left.

Storer Hill Cemetery

Leave Weld Village heading toward Carthage. Go about 3 miles toPodunk Pond Rd. Take this Rd. ofr about 1.5 miles onto Storer Hill. The Cemetery is on the left at the crest of the hill. Old fencing around cemetery.

Tainter Corner Cemetery

The Cemetery is located off Route 2 west of Wilton toward the Village of East Dixfield. Three (3) miles out of the East Dixfield toward Rumford is the Town Line between Wilton & Carthage. One (1) mile beyond the town line marker is a right turn. Take this turn - cemetery is located just a short distance on the right. Somewhat overgrown with stones broken and down. Old house beyond cemetery was onece the Tainter Corner Post Office.

Newman Cemetery

Berry Mills Cemetery

Church Records

Court Records

Gazetteers

Land and Property

History

Maps

Military Records

Newspapers

Maine Newspaper Archive. Indexes free; Digital page images $ (GenealogyBank $) Twenty-two early Maine 18th and 19th century newspapers, 1785-1898 online. Indexes (free); digital images ($). These newspapers are from Augusta, Bangor, Belfast, Brunswick, Castine, Eastport, Falmouth, Hallowell, Kennebunk, Portland, Saco and Wiscasset.

Probate Records

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Farmington Maine Family History Center

Web Sites

• The Franklin County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Franklin County
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Franklin County (backup site)
• FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Franklin County
• Franklin County Genealogy (Maine Genealogy)

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 304, Franklin County, Maine. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ Before an extinct town (or plantation) was discontinued, it created official town records of interest to genealogists. For preservation these records were usually turned over to a nearby functioning town in the same county.
3. ↑ Michael J. Leclerc, Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, 5th ed. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 97. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974 D27g 2012.

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