Farmington Falls and Fairbanks are two places to find on this map, with West Farmington and the Sandy River nearby in the aerial view. Main Street, Fairbanks Road and Farmington Falls Road are printed by name. Click here to purchase a print of this map for your wall.
Farmington is the county seat of Franklin County.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, giving the town’s buildings, neighborhoods, roads and waterways the look of an old atlas. The shaded terrain comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data. Census Bureau files supply the roads and town line; the 2020 census counted 7,592 residents in Farmington.
Sandy River Plantation
Abenaki people had settlements and cultivated fields near Farmington Falls before the arrival of the town’s English settlers. A group from Topsham explored and laid out Sandy River Plantation in 1776. Settlers arrived in 1781, and a sawmill was established that year.
The plantation became Farmington in 1794. Its town history links the name to the fertile soil. Farmers grew hay and fruit and raised sheep, while the water powered lumber mills, gristmills and other manufacturers. The town also had carriage works, a foundry, a tannery and factories making such things as rakes, cheese and spools.
When Franklin County was created in 1838, Farmington became its county seat. Rail service arrived from Leeds Junction in 1859. A narrow-gauge line to the north followed in 1879, with Farmington as the southern end of the Sandy River Railroad.
Chester Greenwood’s ear protectors
Chester Greenwood developed his ear protectors as a teenager in 1873. His biography tells the story of a cold day on skates and a grandmother who sewed fur onto wire loops. Greenwood improved the design, patented it and manufactured his ear protectors in the Farmington area for nearly sixty years.
His inventions extended beyond earmuffs to a tea kettle, an advertising matchbox and a machine for making wooden spools. His wife Isabel supported women’s suffrage, and their house is on the National Register of Historic Places. Farmington celebrates Chester Greenwood Day with a December parade.
Lillian Nordica
The opera singer Lillian Nordica was born Lillian Allen Norton in a Farmington farmhouse in 1857. She studied in Boston and later in Italy, made her operatic debut in Brescia in 1879, and sang at major opera houses in Europe and America. Her performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera extended from 1891 to 1910, with breaks between engagements.
Nordica also raised money for women’s suffrage through concerts and wrote in support of voting rights. Her birthplace is preserved as the Nordica Homestead, and the auditorium in Merrill Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington carries her name.
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See it on a wall
The Farmington map as a framed print. Swipe for more.
The river and the villages
Farmington Falls and Fairbanks, West Farmington and Knowltons Corner are printed names to look for. Temple Road, New Vineyard Road and Wilton Road join Main Street, Fairbanks Road and Farmington Falls Road on the artwork. Sandy River is printed too, with the town’s smaller roads and buildings drawn around it.
The Sandy River, Temple Stream, Wilson Stream and Beaver Brook drain Farmington. Fairbanks, Farmington Falls and West Farmington are all within the town’s limits, along with the central village. The college, fair and county offices are other parts of a town whose history includes farming, manufacturing, education and music.
If you call Farmington home, this map offers a view of its villages and river as it looks today. It belongs in an office, library or den and can help teach children the geography and history behind the familiar names. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Farmington, Maine map.
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