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Buckfield: A Geographical History Of Rural Development In Nineteenth-Century Oxford County, Nancy Hatch
Buckfield: A Geographical History Of Rural Development In Nineteenth-Century Oxford County, Nancy Hatch
Maine History
In this article author Nancy Hatch presents a geographical and historical account of the town of Buckfield, Oxford County; Maine, that elaborates a model of center-village development constructed by Joseph Wood in his The New England Village, and a model of connected farm buildings, as constructed by Thomas Hubka in his Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn. Hatch uses these models to explain how Buckfield responded to the growth of inter-regional agricultural markets in the mid-nineteenth century and to new architectural styles that appeared on the national scene in these decades. Ms. Hatch was a student at …
Settling Oxford County: Maine’S Revolutionary War Bounty Myth, Jean F. Hankins
Settling Oxford County: Maine’S Revolutionary War Bounty Myth, Jean F. Hankins
Maine History
It is a common assumption that many New England frontier towns were founded by veterans of the Revolutionary War who had been given land for their service to the country. Author Jean Hankins's careful research in deeds, records, and legislative acts shows that this was not the case in representative Oxford County towns. Although there were a variety of bounties given for land in these towns, few had anything to do with the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War bounty myth persists, the author specidates, because it is an appealing way to begin the history of these towns, and because, since …