Shapleigh, ME Real Estate and Information . . .

Shapleigh, pronounced "Shap-LEE", is a town in York County, Maine. The population was 2,326 at the 2000 census. Shapleigh includes the villages of Ross Corner and Emery Mills. In 1661, Francis Small kept a trading house in Limington. In 1663, Captain Sunda met Small to deed him the Ossipee Tract. A man known as Major Nicolas Shapleigh of Kittery, a landowner, was an ally of Small, was deeded an undivided half of all of the lands Sunda conveyed, taking Hubbardstown renaming it to Shapleigh. Major Nicolas Shapleigh later died in 1682. In 1770, Nicolas Shapleigh's heirs reposessed Nicolas Shapleigh's deed and possessed the land Shapleigh owned. The area became a township called the Shapleigh Plantation. It was later incorporated Shapleigh as a town in 1785. In 1830, Shapleigh was split in half when part of the town separated and was organized as the Town of Acton, and in 1846, 600-800 acres of the northeastern part of Shapleigh was annexed to Newfield. Waterboro later had an east portion of Shapleigh to finalize it's borders.

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