Windham (Maine)

Windham
Parson Smith House
Location in Maine
Windham
Basic data
Foundation :	June 12, 1762
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Cumberland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 48 ′  N , 70 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 48 ′  N , 70 ° 24 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants : -  Metropolitan Area :	17.001 (as of 2010) 513.102 (as of July 1, 2007)
Population density :	140.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	130.2 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 120.9 km 2  (approx. 47 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	72 m
Postcodes :	04062, 04082
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-86025
GNIS ID :	0582817
Website :	www.windhamweb.com
Mayor :	Tony Plante

Windham is a town in Cumberland County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there lived 17,001 inhabitants in 6383 households on a land area of ​​120.9 km².

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the place has a total area of ​​130.2 km², of which 120.9 km² are land and 9.3 km² (7.16% of the total area). It is located on Sebago Lake and thus in the catchment area of ​​the Pleasant River and the Presumpscot River.

Geographical location

Windham is centrally located in Cumberland County and borders the east bank of Sebago Lake . In the northeast of the area is Little Sebago Lake , in the east of Forrest Lake and in the south of Highland Lake . The western border of the town is formed by the outflow of the Sebago Lake, which is also dammed up there to Dundee Pond and later flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Falmouth. The surface of the town is slightly hilly, interspersed with smaller lakes and rivers. The highest point is the 178 m high, in the east near Forrest Lake , Atherton Hill .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Raymond , 17 mi
• Northeast: Gray , 3.7 mi
• East: Cumberland , 17.2 km
• Southeast: Falmouth , 9 miles
• South: Westbrook , 4.2 miles
• West: Gorham , 4.5 miles
• Northwest: Frye Island in Sebago Lake, 8 mi

City structure

There are several settlements in Windham: Baker Corner , Dolley Corner , East Windham , Fosters Corner , Glantz Corner , Ireland Corner , Land of Nod , Lowells Corner , Morrills Corner , Newhall (formerly Gambo Falls), North Windham , Pleasant Ridge , Popeville , Scotland , South Windham , Union Chapel , White's Bridge , Windham Center and Windham Hill .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Windham is between −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA; the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Main Street, South Windham about 1910

The township was awarded in 1734 by Massachusetts General Court to Abraham Howard, Joseph Blaney, and 58 other people from Marblehead. New Marblehead Plantation was established in 1737 as a settlement by Captain Thomas Chute. The Massachusetts General Court ordered a fort to be built in the center of the settlement in the spring of 1744 to provide protection during the King George's War . It was equipped with two rotating basses. The residents stayed within the palisades between 1745 and 1751. The last Indian attack on the site occurred on May 14, 1756. New Marblehead Plantation became independent as Windham on June 12, 1762; the place was named after Wymondham in Norfolk / England.

Most of the early residents were farmers who found clay soil that was good for cultivation. Windham is supplied by several hydroelectric plants and a mill was built at Mallison Falls in 1738. The Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832 and was used to transport goods along the Presumpscot River between Sebago Lake and Portland. In 1859, when Windham had 2,380 inhabitants, there were eight sawmills, a corn and flour mill, two clapboard mills, a fulling mill, two carding mills, a carded yarn and textile factory, a barrel factory, a chair factory, a gunpowder factory and two tanneries. In 1886, felt, boots and shoes, wood and paper boards, carriages, harness, coffins, clothing and wooden goods were also produced in the village. On April 4, 1919, the legislature passed a law creating a men's prison in Little Falls-South Windham. Today it is the Maine Correctional Center, a low to medium security prison for men and women. With its main village North Windham, the place is now a recreation area and suburb of Portland.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Windham, Maine
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										938
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1329	1613	1793	2182	2303	2380	2635	2428	2312	2216
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1929	1954	1932	2076	2381	3434	4498	6593	11282	13020
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	14904	17001

Culture and sights

Buildings

Great Falls Depot

One district and three structures are listed buildings and have been added to the National Register of Historic Places .

as a district

• Great Falls Historic District , incorporated in 1995, Register No. 94001541

further structures

• Goold House , recorded in 1990, register no. 89000251
• Maplewood Farm , recorded 1991, register no. 91001813
• Parson Smith House , recorded 1973, register no. 73000237

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 302 runs from the southeast to the northwest through Windham, connecting the town with Portland in the south and Bridgton in the north. The US Highway 202 runs from southwest to northeast and connecting Windham with Rochester in the south and in the north of Augusta. Maine State Route 115 runs through the northern tip . The Interstate 95 of the Maine Turnpike extends outside of the area of Windham, east of Forrest Lakes .

Public facilities

There is a medical facility in Windham. The closest hospitals to Windham residents are in Gorham, Westbrook and Portland.

education

Windham belongs to RSU 14 with Raymond .

The following schools are offered in the school district:

• Windham High School, Windham, (Grades 9-12)
• Katahdin Program in Raymond (Alternative School) (Grades 9 to 12)
• Windham Middle School in Windham, (Grades 6 to 8)
• Jordan-Small Middle School in Raymond (Grades 5 to 8)
• Manchester School in Windham (Grades 3 to 5)
• Raymond Elementary School in Raymond (grades Kindergarten to 4)
• Windham Primary School in Windham (grades Kindergarten to 3)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John Albion Andrew (1818–1867), Governor
• John Anderson (1792-1853), Member of Congress
• David PB Pride (1855 – unknown), politician
• Jeff Donnell (1921–1988), actor
• Willard Mains (1868-1923), baseball player

Web links

Commons : Windham, Maine  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Official website of the City of Windham
• Windham on maine.gov
• Windham Historical Society & Museum
• Windham on City-Data.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Windham, in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 30, 2018
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ^ Atherton Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ^ Windham, Cumberland County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved March 30, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Windham, Maine (ME 04062) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on March 30, 2018 (English). 
7. ^ Neil Rolde: Maine: A Narrative History . Harpswell Press, 1990, ISBN 0-88448-069-0 , pp. 84-85.
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ↑ RSU14 , accessed March 18, 2018