Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Goodridge Corner School. Below: 4 old photos and papers and old-book passages.
Industry was named from the industrious habits of its citizens.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Industry’s history is told.
Another post office, Allen's Mills, 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Industry yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Industry is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 788 at the 2020 census. It was named from the industrious habits of its citizens.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 929 to 788 (-15%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Industry, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The undersigned inhabitants of the town of Industry, in the Count) of Franklin, respectfully represent that so much of the territory of the town of Industry, adjoining the town of New Sharon in said County, as is embraced in the following description, containing an entire school district, ought to be set off from the town oi' Industry and annexed to the town of New Sharon. (Here followed a description of the bounds as given in the foot note on page 14 q. v. ) The undersigned further say that some of the reasons for asking
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not more than a mile and a half from where the town meetings are held in Industry, to which place we have a direct road in good repair, that we have uniformly joined with the 'Town of Industry in the Support of Schools for our Children, ami we there perform Military duty. Being thus situated, we humbly request your honorable body to take the premises into your consideration, and grant us relief, by setting off our Polls and estates from the Town of New Sharon aforesaid and annexing the same to the Town of Industry in the County of Somerset, by a line
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.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Industry itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Goodridge Corner School (listed 2025).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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