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North Yarmouth, officially the Town of North Yarmouth, is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. North Yarmouth is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 4,072 at the 2020 United States Census. [2]
The history of Yarmouth, Maine, is closely tied to its position on the banks of the Royal River and its proximity to Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine, itself a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean. Native Americans originally settled the area, and several wars between them and later European settlers occurred before they were driven from the area ...
Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth , it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , and remained part of its subsequent incarnations for 213 years.
Yarmouth's marina in 2022, looking south. Also known as Falls Village or The Falls, Lower Falls (named for the nearby First Falls) was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while—on the southern side of today's East Main Street Bridge—was Yarmouth's harbor, where many hundreds of ships were built and launched in the century between 1790 and 1890.
Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636–1936: A History is a book by William Hutchinson Rowe. It was published in 1937, covering three centuries of the events of North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine. [1] As of the early 21st century, it was still in print. [2] [3] It was Rowe's fourth book, following Yarmouth
The Meetinghouse under the Ledge, also known as the Old Ledge Meetinghouse, [1] was a church that stood in present-day Yarmouth, Maine, between 1729 and 1836. It was the ninth church founded in Maine. [2] Named for the ledge that rises to the west of its former location, only the church's eastern doorstep remains, beside today's Garrison Lane.
It covered the history and genealogy of the town of North Yarmouth, Maine. In 1977, a century after its first edition was printed, it was published in book form by the New Hampshire Publishing Company, [ 1 ] with Corliss' handwritten notes in the margins of some pages, written by a 19th-century reader who either agreed with or, occasionally ...
James Lane (1626 – September 13, 1688) [1] was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies.He was one of the main early settlers of North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Yarmouth, Maine), along with compatriots John Cousins, William Royal and George Felt.