Chisholm is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,380 at the 2010 census. It is an industrial village named for Hugh J. Chisholm, who built the Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Company here in 1888 to use Androscoggin River water power.
Image: View of Paper Mills, Chisholm, ME
Jay is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. Jay was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 4,620 at the 2020 United States Census. Jay includes the village of Chisholm.
Holmes-Crafts Homestead is now a museum maintained by the Jay Historical Society
Jay Bridge Falls in 1869
View of Jay in 1910
Paper mills c. 1908