Carthage is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States.

4, Abbott's Purchase, it was part of a large tract of land bought in 1815 by Jacob Abbott of Wilton, New Hampshire from Jonathan Phillips of Boston, who had purchased an even larger tract from the state of Massachusetts about 1790.

4 was noted for extensive forests of pine and valuable formations of limestone.

In 1804, William Bowley and his family from Bristol, New Hampshire settled in Plantation No.

[4] The town was incorporated on February 20, 1826, and named after Carthage, the ancient Mediterranean city in what is today Tunisia in North Africa.

By 1880, when the population was 507, Carthage had farms, two sawmills, a gristmill and a limestone quarry.

4, Wilton and Temple to the east, and Mexico and Dixfield to the south in Oxford County.

27.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

19.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.