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at Your Pace

What makes living in historic Farmington, Maine so special? Simply put, it's got everything you need in a friendly town that's set at a comfortable pace.

Farmington (population 7,500) is known across Maine for its small-town friendliness and charm. A picture-postcard village of beautiful Victorian homes, soaring church steeples, spectacular rivers and lakes, and more. Farmington has a true Norman Rockwell character and feeling. It's a place where you'll be comfortable. Here, neighbors still look after neighbors and young people smile and hold the door open for you at the Post Office.

But Farmington is also known across nation as a vibrant college town, home to the nationally-recognized University of Maine at Farmington. Located downtown, just a short drive from Willow Springs, the small university offers a wide range of learning and enrichment classes specially for adults through its senior college, the Gold Leaf Institute.

The university also offers senior memberships to its indoor Fitness & Recreation Center, which features cardio-fitness equipment, indoor walking-jogging track, heated lap pool, and special senior fitness classes offered year-round. Of course, Farmington is also home to one of the finest hospitals in the nation, the award-winning Franklin Memorial Hospital, recognized nationally for excellence by the American Hospital Association. In addition, the Farmington area has an extensive community health system with top specialists in a range of medical areas - helping to make Franklin County one of the healthiest places in Maine to live.

Farmington is well-known in Maine for its pretty, vibrant downtown area - just a 4 minute drive from Willow Springs. Restaurants, unique shops, bookstores, coffee shops, banks, pharmacy, a movie theater and so much more await you -- and that's just downtown. Just a short drive from downtown is all the big-name stores you recognize: Hannaford Supermarket, Wal-Mart, Rite Aid and more.