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History · Weld

47% of Weld’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Weld Town Hall. Below: 3 old photos and papers from 1906 on.

1on the National Register
47%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
2famous people
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From Weld’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Weld’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Weld’s homes were built before 1951.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Weld’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewThe Square, Weld Village, ME: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Weld came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Weld.

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Originally called No. 5 (or Webb's Pond Plantation), it was first settled in 1800 by Nathaniel Kittredge and his family from Chester, New Hampshire. The town was part of an extensive tract purchased about 1790 from the state of Massachusetts by Jonathan Phillips of Boston. Phillips was an investor whose agent, Jacob Abbott of Wilton, New Hampshire, resold parcels of the land to settlers. Together with Benjamin Weld of Boston, Abbott and his brother-in-law Thomas Russell Jr. in 1815 bought what remained of the Phillips tract.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Weld, 1826 to 1922

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1826Born hereJohn B. Taft is born here
  3. 1843Born hereAlbert A. Newman is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1906In the archiveThe Square, Weld Village, ME
  6. 1915In the archiveView from Center Hill
  7. 1922BuiltWeld Town Hall is built
By decade

Weld, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s–1910s3 items
The Square, Weld Village, MEc. 1906The Square, Weld Village, MEPostcardPoint of Pinesc. 1908Point of PinesPostcardView from Center Hillc. 1915View from Center HillPostcard
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today2 recent
Tumbledown Mountain in Maine2022Tumbledown Mountain in MaineKeep calm and guard on (Unsplash)2015Keep calm and guard on (Unsplash)
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

The Square, Weld Village, ME
Retake this viewThe Square, Weld Village, ME, c. 1906

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Weld’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Weld

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Weld Town Hall
Weld Town Hall, built 1922
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals1
Weld Town HallLate 19th and 20th Century Revivals · Built 1922

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Weld

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Albert A. NewmanAmerican businessman · b. 1843
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John B. TaftAmerican politician – Minnesota -House 1889-90 … · b. 1826
Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Chase CornerWeld Corner
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Weld
Center HillMountain ViewOld TainterRobertson

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

RoxburyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAvonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCarthage2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Weld’s history

What is on the National Register in Weld?

One place: the Weld Town Hall (listed 2007).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.