Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Kezar Falls, ME

Kezar Falls is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the Ossipee River in the towns of Porter in Oxford County and Parsonsfield in York County, Maine, with a population of 736 at the 2020 census.

The village and falls are named for eighteenth-century settler George Kezar, whose hunting exploits became local folklore, including a story that he survived hand-to-hand combat with a bear.

Kezar built a rock-to-rock footbridge across the Ossipee River, and the nearby falls took his name, as did the village settlement that grew up around them.

Kezar Falls proved a good source of water power, which was harnessed to drive woolen mills and to generate electricity for the village.

In 1880 John Devereux and George W. Towle built the Kezar Falls Woolen Mill, which became the most important business in Parsonsfield.

Kezar Falls was incorporated as the "Porter Kezar Falls Village Corporation in the Town of Porter" by the Maine State Legislature in 1911, and a portion of Hiram in Oxford County was added to the corporation in 1913.

Historically there were two Kezar Falls Village Corporations, one at Porter and one at Parsonsfield across the Ossipee River, but the Parsonsfield corporation was formally repealed by the Maine Legislature and accepted at Parsonsfield Town Meeting in 1975.

The village is served by the Parsonsfield post office, ZIP code 04047, on the York County side and the Porter post office, ZIP code 04068, on the Oxford County side.