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The Western Lakes and Mountains region spans most of Maine's western border with New Hampshire. A small part of the scenic White Mountain National Forest is located in this area. The region consists of Oxford County , Androscoggin County , Franklin County , as well as northern York and interior Cumberland counties.
Barn, Bethel, Maine Androscoggin River, late March, Bethel, Maine. Bethel is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,504 at the 2020 census. [3] It includes the villages of Bethel and West Bethel. The town is home to Gould Academy, a private preparatory school, and is near the Sunday River ski resort.
John Philbrook, the buyer, was a native of Shelburne, New Hampshire who attended Bethel's Gould Academy. He began his career in farming and lumber, and eventually became a merchant, and served several terms in the Maine State Senate and as a county commissioner. Left vacant for a number of years following Philbrook's death, the home was ...
Maine State Route 5 joins Route 2 in Bethel but runs south through the village center and continues southwest 36 miles (58 km) to Fryeburg. State Route 26 leads southeast from Bethel 24 miles (39 km) to South Paris. Bethel was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2]
The Bethel Resort & Suites is a full service, four-season resort located in Maine's Mahoosuc Mountains on the village common of Bethel, Maine offering fine and casual dining, golf, skiing, spa services, a health club, lake house, conference center and 200 acres of resort activities.
West Bethel is an unincorporated village in the town of Bethel, Oxford County, Maine, United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 2 and the Androscoggin River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Paris. West Bethel has an active post office, which was opened January 12, 1837. The post office was originally located in the store on the ...
The Dr. Moses Mason House is a historic house museum at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Mason Street in Bethel, Maine.Built c. 1813–15, it is notable as the home of one of Bethel's early doctors and first postmaster, Moses Mason (1789-1866), and for the murals drawn on some of its walls by the itinerant artist (among other professions he engaged) Rufus Porter.
The museum occupies two buildings in Bethel's Broad Street Historic District, the 1821 O'Neil Robinson House and the 1813 Dr. Moses Mason House. The museum focuses on preserving and interpreting the history of western Maine and the White Mountain region of Maine and New Hampshire. [1]