Freeman Township

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On March 4, 1808 Freeman was organized as a town. In 1823 is set off land to form North Salem (now Salem Township. Ten years later it set off more land to New Portland. By 1838, during the Great Depression, it surrendered its organization and reverted to become an unorganized township in in Franklin County.…

Strong

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Canoe on the Shore of the Sandy River in Strong (2013)

The main village is located about eleven miles north of Farmington on a big bend in the Sandy River at the junction of Maine Routes 4, 145, 149 and 234. Maine’s Republican Party was founded here on August 7, 1854 by a coalition of anti-slavery Democrats, other Democrats, and Whigs.