Details
Object ID : 001967
Object Name : Otisfield - Records, 1795-1850
Object Desc : 2 document boxes, old records concerning taxes, assessment, highway surveying, poor relief. Apparently acquired from Naples book dealer, date unknown.
Collection : Coll. 55, Bourdon Scribner Collection
Accession # : 2016.660
General Category : Documents
Category : Miscellaneous Documents
Source Category : Gift
Accession Date : JAN 20,2005
Location : Range 7
Status : In Collection
Object Keywords : Poor Relief,Taxes and Assessments,Highway Surveyors,
Title : Architectural Survey 1981
Description : Survey provided incentive for start of OHS in same year, under Ethel Turner. Survey was for all Oxford Co. towns, resulted in eventual publication of Randall Bennett's book, Oxford County, Maine: A Guide to Its Historic Architecture (Bethel, 1984). Original plan was to publish one such volume for each county, but funding ran out after only 2 counties were done. Some of the town's oldest houses aren't included in survey, for reasons unknown. But information here is invaluable. Survey sheets have been updated over the years and now include house numbers for identification.