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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.
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.
Location of Franklin County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The Hiram Ramsdell House, also called the Octagon House, is an historic octagonal house located at High and Perham streets in Farmington, Maine. Built in 1858 by mason Cyrus Ramsdell, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973. [1]
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 ...
The First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, also known as the New Old South Congregational Church, is a historic church at 235 Main Street in Farmington, Maine. The congregation's present sanctuary is a brick Romanesque structure designed by George M. Coombs and was completed in 1887. It is the town's finest 19th-century church ...
The Greenwood House is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, set on a wooded knoll between Maine State Route 27 and the Sandy River, south of downtown Farmington.The house as asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period, its most prominent feature being a three-story octagonal tower topped by a bellcast pyramidal roof.
The Farmington Historic District encompasses much of the main central business district of Farmington, Maine.Farmington was settled in the 1770s, and experienced its most rapid growth after being named the shire town (county seat) of Franklin County in 1838, with a secondary spurt of redevelopment after a major fire in the 1880s.