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Farmington is a town in and the county seat of Franklin County, Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , its population was 7,592. [ 3 ] Farmington is home to the University of Maine at Farmington , Nordica Memorial Auditorium, the Nordica Homestead, and the annual Farmington Fair.
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Lillian Allen Norton was born in 1857 in a small Cape Cod style farmhouse built by her grandfather on a hill in Farmington, Maine.. Nordica as Brünnhilde, 1898. In her youth, Norton is said to have possessed an inherent fondness for music and the sounds of singing birds and running brooks.
Mills was born in Farmington, Maine, on December 30, 1947, the daughter of Katherine Louise (Coffin) and Sumner Peter Mills Jr. [3] [4] Her mother was a schoolteacher and Congregationalist, [5] while her father was a lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for Maine in the 1950s. [3] Mills graduated from Farmington High School in 1965.
The Nordica Homestead is a historic house museum at 116 Nordica Road (a short drive off Holly Road) in Farmington, Maine. Built in 1840, this house was the birthplace and summer home of Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), one of the leading operatic sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been a museum dedicated to her memory ...
President, University of Maine at Farmington [29] Linda Smith Dyer (1948–2001) 2001 Co-founder of Maine Women's Lobby [30] Chellie Pingree (1955–) 2001 United States House of Representatives [31] Caroline D. Gentile (1924–2008) 2000 Physical education instructor [32] Joan Benoit Samuelson (1957–) 2000
For this reason, today, Sawyer's sepia images are hard to find. Unlike Wallace Nutting, Charles Sawyer rarely staged scenes. If an image contained people, cattle, sheep, etc., that is what was there and happening at the time. "Among the New England Hills", photographed and painted in 1904 in Farmington, Maine, is just such a scene.
Farmington is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the center of the town of Farmington, which is the county seat of Franklin County in Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 4,288 at the 2010 census, [2] out of 7,760 people in the town as a whole. The University of Maine at Farmington is located within the CDP.