About Denmark
LOCATION: Southern part of Oxford County, between Bridgton and Fryeburg.
HISTORY: The town was first settled by Daniel Boston, who arrived in 1775. In 1780, Boston bought land on the eastern side of the Saco River from Henry and Elizabeth Brown, the founders of Brownfield.
In 1793, early settlers persuaded two carpenters, Cyrus Ingalls and Samuel Spafford, to move here from Massachusetts and build a sawmill and a gristmill at Moose Brook. The construction of those mills, along with the sale of lots in Pleasant Mountain Gore, were instrumental in establishing Denmark as a community.
The town was incorporated in 1807.
During the Civil War, Denmark was home to an important factory that manufactured wagon wheels for the Union Army.
By 1880, the town had several general stores, a clothing store and a confectionery. There was a stave and shook mill that manufactured carriages and caskets.
NOTABLE RESIDENTS: Cyrus Ingalls, in addition to being an important local businessman, was the town's first justice of the peace and helped form Maine's first Constitution. His home still stands at the junction of Routes 160 and 117.
Ingalls' son, Rufus, became quartermaster general of the Union Army during the Civil War.
Well-known itinerant painter Rufus Porter lived in Denmark as a teenager.
Hazen Pingree was born in Denmark in 1840. He went on to become mayor of Detroit and governor of Michigan.
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