Rumford, a town in Oxford County, incorporated on February 21, 1800 from New Pennycook (or Pennacook) Plantation. It later annexed land from Peru and Franklin Plantation.
Pennacook Falls plunge 180 feet over solid granite into the Androscoggin River that flows past the main settlement in Rumford.
The water power here has driven paper mills for decades.
Former Maine governor and U.S. Senator, Edmund S. Muskie, later to be U.S. Secretary of State was born here in 1914.
