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South Paris, ME - History


We would like to provide the residents of  South Paris  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the South Paris Home page. The South Paris Home page provides as much information as possible on South Paris. Knowing South Paris’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within South Paris’s Home page, you will also find South Paris’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

South Paris has a population of 1842. 51.3% of South Paris’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.7 are female. 38.7% of South Paris is married and 59.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $127,058, and the average rent is $497. Household median income in South Paris is $38,920, and the individual median income is $24,691. South Paris’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.5%), Hispanic(4.7%), Multiple(3.5%).


During the 19th-century, the Little Androscoggin River provided water power to operate mills in South Paris, and the village grew up around them. The opening of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad on June 8, 1850 further spurred development of the small mill town. In the 1890s, the Oxford County Courthouse moved from Paris Hill to be near the Grand Trunk Railway station.


Much of the manufacturing and industry faded with the Great Depression, but South Paris remains the commercial section of Paris, and retains much of its Victorian era architecture. Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, the regional high school, was founded in South Paris in 1961. Actress Reta Shaw was born in South Paris in 1912.


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