Ripley, Maine

Somerset county. A good farming town, 60 miles N. by E. from Augusta and 30 N.E. from Norridgewock. Incorporated, 1816. Population, 1837, 555. Wheat crop, same year, 3,512 bushels. A branch of Sebasticook river passes through the town.

From Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839