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Standish is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 10,244 at the 2020 census. [2] It includes the villages of Standish Corner, Sebago Lake Village and Steep Falls, and the localities known as Richville, Elmwood, Standish Neck and Two Trails. Standish is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area.
Standish, known locally as Standish Corner, [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Standish in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 469 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Standish Corner Historic District encompasses a collection of five early farmhouses in the village of Standish Corner in southeastern Standish, Maine.All five houses were built in the late 18th or early 19th century, and the assemblage are all that survive of the town's original early center.
Steep Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Standish in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. [2] It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is part of Maine School Administrative District #6, which includes Bonny Eagle ...
In about 1780 four Paine brothers left Eastham, Massachusetts, and settled in the area that is now Gorham and Standish, Maine. One of them, Joseph, settled on the Pequawket Trail (now Maine State Route 113), the major historic route from coastal southern Maine to the Fryeburg area, on the northeast side of Watchic Pond. Although his early home ...
Standish, Greater Manchester, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Standish Hall, a demolished estate and country house; Standish-with-Langtree, a former urban district of Lancashire; Standish, Gloucestershire
The last Indian attack on the town occurred on May 14, 1756. New Marblehead Plantation was incorporated on June 12, 1762, as Windham, named for Wymondham in Norfolk, England. [4] Windham Minutemen marched to Portland in response to the Burning of Falmouth on October 18, 1775, and sixteen men were drafted from the town for the Penobscot Expedition.
Pearsontown Plantation was first settled in the 1750s, then incorporated as the town of Standish on November 30, 1785. Frye Island, named for Captain Joseph Frye, seceded to become a separate town on July 1, 1998. [4] A popular legend on Frye Island tells of Captain Frye and his escape from a tribe of Native Americans in Portland. While being ...