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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 Lisbon Falls (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 Lisbon Falls. 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.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Lisbon Falls is located in Androscoggin 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 Androscoggin County: Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford & Sagadahoc.

Below are the counties that are near Lisbon Falls. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lisbon Falls:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lisbon Falls, see our County-by-County Page for Lisbon Falls.

Cemeteries Near Lisbon Falls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lisbon Falls.

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 Lisbon Falls - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lisbon Falls covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lisbon Falls, with the one closest to Lisbon Falls listed first.

  • Littlefield Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Hilltop Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • St. Cyril Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Vining Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairfield Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Elmlawn Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Potter Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Lisbon Center Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Blake Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (435 more) ...
    • Strout Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sawyer Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Anne Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Lisbon Falls had a population of 835 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Lisbon Falls, with the one closest to Lisbon Falls listed first.

  • Lisbon
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lisbon is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,053 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lisbon <1>
  • Lisbon Center
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lisbon Center is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon Center
  • Durham
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Durham is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,044 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Durham <1>
  • West Bowdoin
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • West Bowdoin is located in Sagadahoc County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bowdoin
  • South Durham
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • South Durham is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Durham
  • West Durham
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • West Durham is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Durham
  • Bowdoin Center
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bowdoin Center is located in Sagadahoc County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowdoin Center
  • South Lewiston
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • South Lewiston is located in Androscoggin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lewiston
  • Hillside
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Hillside is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
  • Topsham
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • North Pownal
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Brunswick
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lisbon Falls. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lisbon Falls.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lisbon Falls ...

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 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lisbon Falls.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lisbon Falls. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lisbon Falls and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lisbon Falls.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> of Lisbon Falls.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites 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 Lisbon Falls:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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 Lisbon Falls, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lisbon Falls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.