Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Foggs Corner (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Foggs Corner. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Foggs Corner ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Foggs Corner: Foggs Cor. (or less commonly used: Foggs Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Foggs Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Foggs Corner may originally have been Fogg's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Foggs Corner might be written as Fogg Corner.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Foggs Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Foggs Corner.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Foggs Corner is located in Cumberland County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cumberland County: Androscoggin, Oxford, Sagadahoc & York.
Below are the counties that are near Foggs Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Foggs Corner:
- Cumberland County (The home county of Foggs Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- North Pownal
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- North Pownal is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Pownal
- New Gloucester
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pownal
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- East Gray
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- East Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Gray
- Gray
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,297 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gray <2>
- Dry Mills
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dry Mills is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Mills
- Shaker Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Shaker Village is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shaker Village
- North Yarmouth
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- North Yarmouth is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Yarmouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,997 people
- Yarmouth Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Yarmouth Junction is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarmouth Junction
- West Gray
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- West Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Gray
- Cumberland Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Freeport
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Androscoggin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- Danville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Danville is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danville
- Durham
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Littlefield Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Littlefield Corner is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littlefield Corner
- Penley Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Penley Corner is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penley Corner
- Rumford Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Rumford Junction is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rumford Junction
- Lisbon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Minot
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Minot is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minot
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,595 people
- Lisbon Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- East Poland
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- East Poland is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Poland
- Moussam
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Moussam is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moussam
- Auburn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lewiston
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Kennebec County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- Litchfield Corners
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Litchfield Corners is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litchfield Corners
- Litchfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- South Monmouth
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- South Monmouth is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Monmouth
- Batchelders Crossing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Batchelders Crossing is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batchelders Crossing
- Monmouth
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- East Monmouth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- East Monmouth is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Monmouth
- Purgatory
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Purgatory is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purgatory
- North Monmouth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- West Gardiner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- West Gardiner is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Gardiner
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,376 people
- Winthrop
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wayne
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- South Gardiner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- South Gardiner is located in Kennebec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gardiner
- Lincoln County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- South Dresden
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- South Dresden is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Dresden
- Hatchs Corner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Hatchs Corner is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatchs Corner
- Westport
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Westport is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
- Population from the 2020 Census: 732 people
- Former name for Westport:
- Westport Island
- Trevett
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Dresden
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wiscasset
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Boothbay
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Edgecomb
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Mouse Island
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Mouse Island is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mouse Island
- Southport
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- West Boothbay Harbor
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- West Boothbay Harbor is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Boothbay Harbor
- Oxford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- East Otisfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- East Otisfield is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Otisfield
- Spurrs Corner
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Spurrs Corner is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spurrs Corner
- Oxford
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Hebron
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- South Paris
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Norway
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Buckfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Paris
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Paris is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paris
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,162 people
- East Denmark
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- East Denmark is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Denmark
- Rankins Mill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Rankins Mill is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankins Mill
- Denmark
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- East Hiram
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- East Hiram is located in Oxford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hiram
- Sagadahoc County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- Pejepscot
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Pejepscot is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pejepscot
- Topsham
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Bowdoin Center
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bowdoin Center is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin Center
- Bowdoin
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bowdoin is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,222 people
- Bowdoinham
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Sabino
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Sabino is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabino
- West Bath
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Bath
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Days Ferry
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Days Ferry is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Days Ferry
- Harwards
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Harwards is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harwards
- Richmond Corner
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Richmond Corner is located in Sagadahoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Corner
- Sebasco Estates
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- York County
- The following are listed by their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- Chicopee
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Chicopee is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicopee
- Kimbles Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Kimbles Corner is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimbles Corner
- Buxton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Buxton is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buxton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,368 people
- East Limington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- East Limington is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Limington
- North Limington
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- North Limington is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Limington
- Bar Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Limington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- South Limington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- South Limington is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Limington
- Hollis Center
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hollis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hollis is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,807 people
- Old Orchard Beach
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Cornish
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Foggs Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Foggs Corner.
Cemeteries Near Foggs Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Foggs Corner.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Foggs Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Foggs Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- Pineland Memorial Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Maplewood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Lake Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Lower Corner Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Elmwood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- McKenney Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Cedar Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Harmony Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Libby Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Old Friends Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- McKenney Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Continue List (464 more) ...
- Merrill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Stetson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Sylvester Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Foggs Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Foggs Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Foggs Corner, with the one closest to Foggs Corner listed first.
- West Pownal
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- West Pownal is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pownal
- North Pownal
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- North Pownal is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Pownal
- New Gloucester
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- North Gray
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- North Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Gray
- Gray Station
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gray Station is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Station
- East Gray
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- East Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Gray
- Pownal
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Upper Gloucester
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Upper Gloucester is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Gloucester
- Dry Mills
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dry Mills is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Mills
- Gray
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Gray is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,297 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gray <2>
- West Durham
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- West Durham is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Durham
- Danville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Danville is located in Androscoggin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danville
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- North Yarmouth
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- North Yarmouth is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Yarmouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,997 people
- Durham
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Walnut Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Walnut Hill is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Foggs Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Foggs Corner.
Newspapers Published in Foggs Corner ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Foggs Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Foggs Corner, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Foggs Corner.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Foggs Corner:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Cumberland County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Androscoggin County
- Kennebec County
- Lincoln County
- Oxford County
- Sagadahoc County
- York County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Foggs Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Foggs Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |