The New International Encyclopædia/Sanford

SAN′FORD. A town in York County, Maine, 36 miles southwest of Portland; on the Boston and Maine Railroad (Map: Maine, B 9). It is an industrial centre, its manufactures including shoes, plush, blankets, carriage robes, worsted cloth, yarn, and lumber products. Settled about 1740. Sanford was first incorporated in 1768. Population, in 1890, 4201; in 1900, 6078. Consult Emery, The History of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900 (Fall River, 1901).