Hamlin Memorial Library & Museum

Public Library & Museum, free admission to general public

This unique, 1822 granite-block building was the original Oxford County Jail. It is located on historic Paris Hill. Hannibal Hamlin, a native of Paris Hill, was Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President. The museum includes Lincoln-Hamlin campaign materials; a collection of 19th-century diaries; artifacts relating to early Paris history; local gems and minerals; and an original 1848 Friendship Quilt.