South Paris, Maine, Rt. 26, Early September 2021 Editorial Image

A street scene in the town of South Paris, Maine, with mountain showing in the distance at the end of the road, white clapboard homes, a building with a steeple, cars and trucks parked, deciduous and evergreen trees, railroad crossing, bright sunshiny day. Paris is a town in and the county seat of Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,183 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of South Paris is located within the town. Because the U.S. Post Office refers to the entire town as South Paris, the town as a whole is commonly referred to as South Paris. It was granted by Massachusetts on June 11, 1771, to Captain Joshua Fuller of Watertown, Massachusetts and 59 others (or their heirs) for service during the French and Indian Wars.