Vassalboro (originally Vassalborough) is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.

Vassalboro is included in the Augusta, Maine, micropolitan New England City and Town Area.

William Vassall was born in 1715 on his family's Jamaican sugar plantation.

[5] Slavery had formed an "integral part" of the Vassalls' fortune since 1648, when William's great-grandfather moved to Barbados and launched the family into the sugar business.

A Loyalist during the Revolution, he fled to England,[7] where he died in 1800, having spent many years arguing for "compensation for what he deemed the illegal confiscation of his properties in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

[10] The Revere House in East Vassalboro was once the home of Alexander Graham Bell.

The East Vassalboro Grange hosts the annual library book sale in the fall.

The Vassalboro rec fields on Bog Road hosts sports events and teams and has a newly opened walking trail which includes portions of the abandoned narrow gauge Wiscassett, Waterville, & Farmington Railway roadbed.

[1] Drained by Seven Mile Brook, Vassalboro is bounded on the west by the Kennebec River.

It borders the towns of China to the east, Augusta to the south, Winslow to the north, and across the Kennebec River, Sidney to the west.