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History of Salem, Maine, USA*

Name: Salem, Maine, USA*
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Salem is an extinct town, now a township in the East Central Franklin townships. In 1823 it was organized as a town from Freeman, Mount Abram, and Phillips going by the name of North Salem; but the name was changed to simply Salem in 1834. Salem surrendered its town organization in 1945.

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1839 - Salem

Salem, Maine
Somerset county. This town is watered by a branch of Seven Mile Brook, and lies 52 miles N.N.W. from Augusta, and 28 N.W. from Norridgewock. Incorporated, 1823. Population, 1837, 496. This is a good farming town; it produced, in 1837, 4,216 bushels of wheat.

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 - Salem

Salem, a post-village of Franklin co., Me., in Salem township (town), 20 miles N. by W. of Farmington. Pop. of the town in 1900, 195.

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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