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| | History of the Rumford, Maine |
 | | New Pennacook Township, was incorporated as Rumford by the General Court of Massachusetts, as the 123rd town within the District of Maine, on February 21, 1800. |
 | | The Town of Rumford is situated in beautiful western Maine, near the center of Oxford County, about 75 miles north of Portland, about 20 miles from South Paris, the shire town of Oxford County, and about 45 miles northwest of the State Capital at Augusta. |
 | | Rumford is the hometown of Edmund S. Muskie (1914-1996), former U.S. Secretary of State; Governor of the State of Maine, 1954-1958; U.S. Senator, 1958-1980; Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1968, and Presidential candidate in the 1972 in the Democratic primary elections. |
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