Livermore Falls is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine. The area that was to become Livermore and Livermore Falls was first settled by the English in 1786, and incorporated as Livermore in 1795, named after Deacon Elijah Livermore, an early English settler. Since the county line, determined by the Androscoggin River, divided the town, it was broken off from Livermore on March 1, 1844, and incorporated under the name of East Livermore. In 1930, East Livermore was renamed Livermore Falls.
In the early 19th century, the area was mostly farmland, with apple orchards and dairies supplying markets in Portland and Boston, and was noted for fine cattle. In the middle to latter parts of that century, gristmills, sawmills, logging, and lumber became significant industries, operated by water power from its falls that drop fourteen feet; and the arrival of the railroad helped the town to develop into a small mill town, including shoe factories and paper mills.
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