From the farm to the forestClifton “Skip” Hammond was born September 22, 1927, in Belgrade, Maine, and grew up on the family farm. Like many in rural Maine, he learned early how to work with his hands, splitting his youth between chores in the barn and “woods work” in...
Camp Bomazeen is located on the eastern shore of Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes and has operated for nearly eighty years as an important youth camp in central Maine. The camp formally opened in 1945 as a Boy Scouts of America camp. Its dedication drew Scouts from ten...
In his History of Baptists in Maine, Joshua Millet wrote in 1845 that, on April 29, 1806, twelve members did “gather a church in Belgrade”. Elder I. Case was the first preacher, followed by Asa Wilbur, Gould, Joseph Palmer, Moses Low, Kendal and Benjamin Bishbee. By...
In 1870, a church was built at Belgrade Mills (now Belgrade Lakes) under the sponsorship of Methodists and Adventists. A large part of the cost was borne by David Golder, the affluent owner of the spool factory. This Union Church was open all year until 1954 when...
St. Helena’s Roman Catholic Church at Belgrade Lakes is a mission of St. Theresa’s Parish of Oakland. The mission originated from meetings during the summers of 1907–1910 at the Great Pond cottage of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McCormack. From 1910 until 1913, Catholic masses...
The Faith Community Church at North Belgrade, at the corner of the Old Station Road and the Oakland Road, had its start as a Sunday School group meeting with Rev. Leo Dunn before 1950 in the now demolished North Belgrade Grange Hall. When a fund was raised in January...