History of Otisfield, Maine, USA

Accordingly the proprietors and first citizens built the first Bell Hill Meetinghouse, constructed between 1795 and 1799.

Otisfield, Maine
Cumberland county. This town is watered by Crooked river, which empties into Sebago lake. The soil is very good, and produced, in 1837, 4,525 bushels of wheat. It lies 82 miles S.S.W. from Augusta, and 32 N.N.W. from Portland. Population 1830, 1,257.

Otisfield, a post-township in Cumberland co., Maine, 25 miles S. S. W. from Augusta. Population, 1171.

Otisfield is the most easterly of the northern towns of Cumberland County. Thompson’s Pond separates it from Poland in Androscoggin County and from the southern part of the town of Oxford in Oxford County. Norway in the same county bounds it on the north, on the west is Harrison in Cumberland County; and Naples and Casco bound it on the south. Crooked River forms the boundary line for the entire length of the town on the western side. The ponds are Little, Moose, Saturday and Pleasant, beginning at the north of the town and increasing in size southward, the last containing two and a quarter square miles of surface. Thompson’s Pond, which washes the eastern side of the town, has an area of eight square miles. The surface of the town is uneven, the highest eminences being Scribner Hill and Meeting house Hill. The soil is gravelly, but strong and productive; and there are many fine farms in town. Corn, potatoes and hay are the principal crops. At Bolster’s Mills, Centre and East...

O'tisfield, a post-hamlet in Otisfield township, Cumberland co., Me, about 36 miles N.N.W. of Portland. It has a church. Pop. of the township, 1099.