Town of Dixmont

Dixmont is a town in Penobscot County, incorporated on February 28, 1807 from township T3 R1 NWP. Once known as Collegetown, the township had been donated to Bowdoin College.

Maine Routes 9 and U.S. Route 202 travels through the villages of Dixmont and Dixmont Center, with long views of the surrounding area, including Dixmont Hill, which can bee seen for miles with its communications antennas.

Dr. Elijah Dix, a substantial landowner in the area, bought the town (and Dixfield) which bears his name. His son, Joseph, lived in Hampden where his daughter, the future social reformer, Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in 1802.

From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)