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More historic than 81% of U.S. towns · #76 of 143 in Maine. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 14 buildings. Below: maps from 1983 on and the census since 1820.
The Corinth post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, West Corinna (1852), South Corinth (1854) and West Corinth (1870), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 81% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Corinth is more historic than 81% of U.S. towns, #76 of 143 in Maine. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
Maine towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Maine town has 15.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Corinth’s 50.2 sits above most of its state (75% of Maine towns have fewer) while its 15 historic buildings outnumber those of 78% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Corinth had its own post office from 1819 to 1904. Five other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Corinth’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1860 and 1920, then grew 3-fold.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Corinth’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Corinth.
Colin Palmer was the founder of Corinth. In 1792, he built his home on Lot 10 First Range. Tibbetts enlisted as a private in Captain Reuben Dyers' company at the age of 17 on May 26, 1777, from Gouldsboro, Maine. Tibbetts' grave, with an official grave marker of a Revolutionary War soldier, is found in the East Exeter cemetery.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Corinth, cut from the printed page as they were published.
From the northerly line of the town, and running in a southerly direction to Kenduskeag, are five main roads, viz : From Exeter, nearly on the line between Corinth (Ohio Settlement) and Levant, to Kenduskeag; from Exeter through the Eddy and Skinner settlements to Kenduskeag; from Charleston through East Corinth to Kenduskeag (between these two last roads runs the Kenduskeag Stream); from Charleston through East Ridge Set-
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hundred and fifty dollars were raised to defray town charges. The following highways were established : A highway froili New' Charleston, through the Hunting Settlement to the south line of Corinth; a highway from John Goodhue's running in a northerly direction through the Skinner settlement and Simpson (now Eddy) settlement to the Exeter line; and a highway from Lewis Bean's (the Ohio settlement) running northerly to the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereHenrietta Gould Rowe is born here
Born hereArthur R. Gould is born here
BuiltRobyville Bridge is built
BuiltCorinth Town Hall and Corinthian Lodge #59, I.O.O.F. is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Corinth.
1983Charleston sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Corinth.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Corinth post office opened in 1819, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Corinth is more historic than 81% of U.S. towns, #76 of 143 in Maine. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Three places: the Robyville Bridge (listed 1970), the Corinth Town Hall and Corinthian Lodge #59, I.O.O.F. (2008) and the Corinth Village (1973).
13% of Corinth’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.8 points), against a typical 19% for a Maine town; the median home was built in 1986.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (11), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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