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Official seal of Sanford, Maine Location of town/city of Sanford in map of Maine Location of town/city of Sanford in map of Maine Sanford, Maine is positioned in the US Sanford, Maine - Sanford, Maine State Maine Sanford is a town/city in York County, Maine, United States.
The populace was 20,798 in the 2010 census, making it the seventh biggest municipality in the state. Situated on the Mousam River, Sanford includes the village of Springvale.
Sanford is part of the Portland South Portland Biddeford, Maine urbane statistical area.
On November 6, 2012, Sanford voters allowed a new charter to re-incorporate Sanford as a town/city and replace the town meeting format with a town/city council/mayor/strong manager form of government, along with other changes.
The new charter took effect on January 1, 2013. Sanford's new charter provides that the first mayor would be appointed from the rates of Sanford's seven town/city councilors and serve interim for one-year period.
Herlihy was appointed as Sanford's first mayor. Sanford is in the portion of a tract of territory purchased in 1661 from Abenaki Chief Fluellin by Major William Phillips, an owner of mills in Saco.
Subsequently, the region became less dangerous, and Sanford was first settled in 1739.
Incorporated a town in 1768, it was titled after Peleg Sanford.
Following the Civil War, Sanford advanced into a textile manufacturing center, connected to markets by the Portland and Rochester Railroad.
Factories were assembled at both Springvale and Sanford villages.
In 1867, British-born Thomas Goodall established the Goodall Mills at Sanford, after selling another foundry in 1865 at Troy, New Hampshire which made woolen blankets contoured to fit horses.
A bronze statue was erected by the people of Sanford in 1917 to the memory of Thomas Goodall.
In 1954, Burlington Mills, then the nation's biggest textile firm, bought Sanford Mills.
After moving the looms to its Southern plants, Burlington closed Sanford Mills leaving 3,600 unemployed and 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) of empty mills.
Life Magazine called Sanford "the town that refused to die." When the federal government offered cash in the 1960s for urban renewal to rehabilitate aging or blighted districts, more than thirty Sanford structures were razed.
Sanford was the home of Belle Ashton Leavitt, the third woman attorney admitted to the Maine Bar Association.
In 2003, a proposal to build a $650 million casino in South Sanford was rejected by Maine voters.
Sanford is positioned at 43 26 23 N 70 46 23 W (43.439925, -70.773304). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 48.75 square miles (126.26 km2), of which, 47.78 square miles (123.75 km2) of it is territory and 0.97 square miles (2.51 km2) is water. Located near foothills, Sanford is drained by the Mousam River.
Sanford borders the suburbs of Shapleigh, Acton, Alfred, Kennebunk, Wells, North Berwick, and Lebanon.
See also Sanford (CDP), Maine, South Sanford, Maine, and Springvale, Maine for village demographics.
There were 8,500 homeholds of which 30.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 36.3% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 40.5 years.
22.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25% were from 25 to 44; 29% were from 45 to 64; and 15.1% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 8,270 homeholds out of which 33.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families.
In the CDP the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 11.1% of families and 12.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 17.0% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.
Sanford people are protected by Firefighter/EMT's working out of three fire stations positioned in Springvale, South Sanford, and Downtown Sanford.
Goodall Park- Baseball stadium home to the Sanford Mainers, two-time champions of the New England Collegiate Baseball League United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Age Groups and Sex: 2010 - State -- Place and County Subdivision (GCT-P2): Maine".
Edwin Emery, William Morrell Emery, The History of Sanford, Maine 1661-1900, "Colonial Settlement" 1901 (1886), Gazetteer of the state of Maine.
Sanford, Boston: Russell The History of Sanford, Maine 1661-1900.
Maine Women Attorneys: A Photo History, Law - Interview.com Allen and Partner Belle Leavitt, Sanford, Maine, Maine Memory Network United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
A Tour of Sanford in 1900, Maine Memory Network Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sanford, Maine.
Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article Sanford.
City of Sanford & Village of Springvale, Maine Sanford School District Municipalities and communities of York County, Maine, United States Cities of Maine
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