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Hartford: A rural town in Oxford County, Hartford is surrounded by scenic hills and small lakes. The town offers a peaceful lifestyle and access to outdoor activities such as fishing, hiking, and hunting.

[HART-frd] is a town in Oxford County, incorporated on June 13, 1798 from East Butterfield Plantation.

After annexing land from Plantation Number 1 (1807) and Chandler’s Gore (1834), its substantial size was diminished by land transfers to Canton (1838, 1839, 1850) and to Buckfield (1856, 1862).

The town’s name is after Hartford, Connecticut, which itself is named for Hartford, England.

The area was first settled by Edmund Irish in 1788, ten years before it was incorporated as a town. maineanencyclopedia.com
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1839 - Hartford
Hartford, Maine
Oxford county. This excellent township is watered by ponds and small streams, and produced, in 1837, 9,318 bushels of wheat. It lies 31 miles W. from Augusta and 15 N.E. from Paris. Population, 1830, 1,453. Incorporated, 1798.
The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839
1906 - Hartford
Hartford, a post-hamlet of Oxford co., Me., in Hartford township (town), on the Portland and Rumford Falls R., 56 miles N. of Portland. Pop. of the town in 1900, 660.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
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