Town of Upton

Upton is a town in Oxford County, incorporated on February 9, 1860 from Letter B Plantation.

This small community borders New Hampshire and Umagog Lake that straddles the two states and is the source of the Androscoggin River.

Upton is far from other sizable Maine towns on Maine Route 26 as it ends at the New Hampshire border.

The area was the setting for Louise Dickinson Rich's 1942 account of life in the wilderness: We Took to the Woods.

From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)