Leeds is a town in Androscoggin County, settled in 1779 and incorporated on February 16, 1801 from Littleborough Plantation. The following year it annexed land from Livermore, then set off land to Wayne (1810 and 1859) and to Wales (1855).
The Leeds and Farmington Railroad was a constituent line of the Consolidated Maine Central Railroad in 1881.
Former Governor Kenneth B. Curtis was born there in 1931 at Curtis Corner.
