Paris is a town in Oxford County, incorporated on June 20, 1793 from Number Four Plantations. It set off land to Hebron (1818) and Oxford (1838) and annexed land from Buckfield in 1828.
The Paris Hill neighborhood has several architecturally interesting old homes, while South Paris has been the industrial and manufacturing center.
The Hamlin Memorial Library is the former Old Stone Jail built in 1828. Hannibal Hamlin's birthplace is adjacent to the Library.
On the Stearns Hill Road near its intersection with Route 26, the old Hungry Hollow schoolhouse sits on a small plot. Hungry Hollow apparently extends to nearby West Paris.
South Paris, split by the Little Androscoggin River, is the main population center and is half of the Norway-South Paris community, at the junction of Maine Routes 26, 117 and 119.
