Albany Town House is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007 a group of dedicated Albany residents while continuing to improve the building, applied for listing on the National Registry of Historic Places, to improve their fundraising abilities. Rose Lincoln Albany Town House is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rose Lincoln A side view of Albany Town House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Rose Lincoln Inside Albany Town House in 2022 where Jillian Burrill, of Albany, voted at with daughter, Calla, 4. rlincoln@bethelcitizen.
com by Bob O’Brien, Albany Improvement Association President ALBANY — The town Albany in Oxford County was incorporated in 1803 and grew quickly. According to local historian Randall Bennett, in the late 1800s Albany had two churches, 10 public schoolhouses, and a population of over 850 people. It manufactured lumber, shingles, staves, boxes, spools, boots, and shoes.
The Town House was built in 1848 and served as the center of the Albany community, hosting meetings of the 4-H Club, Farm Bureau, Church and Sunday School, public suppers, yard-sales, fundraisers, and town meetings. It was the site of very popular young peoples’ socials (dances); of polling for local, state, and federal elections; and of the town’s Centennial Celebration in 1903 that drew over 2,000 people. Towards the end of the depression in the late 1930s, Albany gave up its town charter to the State of Maine because of a declining population .
