Cambridge Pond in Cambridge from Route 150
Location Map for Cambridge

Location Map for Cambridge

Year Population
1970 96
1980 445
1990 490
2000 492
2010 462
Calais Population Chart 1840-2010

Population Trend 1840-2010

Geographic Data
N. Latitude 45:01:53
W. Longitude 69:27:00
Maine House District 105
Maine Senate District 4
Congress District 2
Area sq. mi. (total) 19.4
Area sq. mi. (land) 19.4
Population/sq.mi. (land) 23.8
County: Somerset

 

 

Total=land+water; Land=land only

(All photos dated 2003)

[CAME-brij] a town in Somerset County, incorporated on February 8, 1834 on land set off from the town of Ripley. The town added land from Wellington in 1885 to form the current boundaries.

Sebasticook River

Sebasticook River

 

 

 

 

 

Named for Cambridge, England, the town is divided from neighboring Ripley by Main Stream, a tributary of the Sebasticook River. In the photo, Cambridge is on the left; Ripley, on the right.

Settled in 1804 when it was still part of the unorganized township T5 R5 NWP, the village was severely damaged by fire in 1825. Several stores and mills followed as it recovered.

Cambridge Village

Cambridge Village

Grange Hall

Grange Hall in the Village

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author, Merle Chadbourne was born in 1891 in Somerset County’s small town of Cambridge. His fiction exploited local rural life, stretching the tales told around a campfire or about a run-in with a wild beast.

The nearby towns of Harmony (where he lived and died), Athens, Wellington and Pleasant Ridge Plantation were fodder for his pen.

Merle Chadbourne, was an author with a gift for humor and for the Maine dialect. His Timberland Tall Tales specializes in the well honed practice of lying to the gullible, the skeptical, and those who love a well told tale. 

The nearby towns of Harmony (where he lived and died), Athens, Wellington and Pleasant Ridge Plantation were fodder for his pen.

Chadbourne was born in 1891 in Somerset County’s small town of Cambridge. His fiction exploited local rural life, stretching the tales told around a campfire or about a run-in with a wild beast.

The nearby towns of Harmony (where he lived and died), Athens, Wellington and Pleasant Ridge Plantation were fodder for his pen.

This small community is served by Maine Routes 150 and 152 and surrounds the eastern end of Cambridge Pond.

Chadbourne was born in 1891 in Somerset County’s small town of Cambridge. His fiction exploited local rural life, stretching the tales told around a campfire or about a run-in with a wild beast.

Short Stories from Timberland Tall Tales (Book)

An Evening at Lost Pond [Pleasant Ridge]

Why the People Live on the Edge of Wellington Township [Wellington]

Helen Blazes Gets Kicked out of Wellington

Helen Returns to Wellington

Burnt Land Horned Pout

Action and Plenty of It

Helen to the Rescue

Bull Rings and Mosquito Cutlets

West Athens Abe

Uncle Elick and Uncle Bob on The Warpath

 

Along the Pond Near the Village

Along the Pond Near the Village

Along the Pond Near the Village

Along the Pond Near the Village

1956 Vintage School, now the Town Office

1956 Vintage School, now the Town Office

Veterans Memorial in the Village

Veterans Memorial in Village


 

 

Form of Government: Town Meeting-Select Board-Administrative Assistant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional resources

Fish, John L. Cambridge Maine History. 1927 May 21. (Cataloger Note: Newspaper article from the Lewiston Evening Journal.)

Ring, Jason H. Diary, 1873. Jan 1-Dec. 24. (Cataloger Note: Jason H. Ring was born Oct. 19, 1854 and lived in Cambridge, Maine. He taught school. A diary of a teacher in Cambridge, Maine. Included in the diary is practical advice for teachers.

Spizuoco, Frank E. Around Ripley. Charleston, SC Arcadia. c2003.

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