Town of Vassalboro

Vassalboro is a town in Kennebec County, incorporated on April 26, 1771.

People from Cape Cod first settled the town in 1760, but shortly after 1780, an influx of Quakers from New York made Vassalboro one of their several strong communities in Maine.

They established the Oak Grove Seminary in 1844, which became Oak Grove Coburn in 1970 through a merger with the Coburn Classical Institute, once supported by Governor Abner Coburn. In 2001 it was renovated as the site of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy.

Bounded by the Kennebec River on the west, the town contains Webber Pond and has access to Threemile Pond at South Vassalboro, and to China Lake at East Vassalboro.

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