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New England Gazeteer
by John Hayward
pub. by Otis Clapp, Boston - 1857

         [pg 10]
         
         ANDOVER, ME.
         
         Oxford Co. This town was first settled by farmers
       from Essex County, Ms., in 1790; was incorporated in
       1804. Situated on both sides of the Ellis River,
       which empties into the Androscoggin at Rumford Point.
       It is 18 miles N. from the depot of the Atlantic and
       St. Lawrence Railroad, at Bryant's Pond, from which 
       a mail-stage runs three times a week to this place.
       It lies 30 miles N.W. from Paris, 66 miles W.N.W. 
       from Augusta, 70 miles N.W. from Portland, 17 miles
       S.E. from Erroll, N.H., 10 miles S. from the lakes
       on the Androscoggin, to which there is a road, where
       sportsmen go for fishing and hunting.
         It is almost surrounded by mountains, the streams
       and ponds abound in trout, and there are some splen-
       did falls and cascades on the streams coming down
       from the mountains, which make it a place of some
       note for the pleasure-seeking and the admirer of
       natural scenery. There are many beautiful farms of
       intervale and upland, and its situation is one of
       the handsomest in the state. The productions are
       corn, rye, wheat, oats, peas, beans, Indian corn,
       wheat, potatoes, hay, & c.
         Lumber of all kinds is manufactured here, and there
       is a mill to make starch from potatoes.
         The first settlers had many privations and hardships,
       which all pioneers have to encounter, but, notwith-
       standing, they lived to a good old age, and some are
       still living who came here when all was a wilderness
       and the Indian roamed over the forest.
       
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