The Louis I. Bussey School, located on US 202, was built in what was originally one of five townships granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1794 to the trustees of Bowdoin College. A large portion of the land was sold to Dr. Elijah Dix of Boston. Notably, Dix was the grandfather of noted Maine social reformer, Dorothea Dix. The town was later named in honor of the doctor who took great interest in the development of the settlement. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the town grew rapidly. The one-room school house was constructed as free public education began to take hold in rural America. It was originally a small clapboarded, one-story, gable-roofed structure, but was remodeled roughly thirty years later in the Greek Revival style which included bilateral symmetry, a portico (or porch) across the front facade, and extending the a moderately pitched roof over the portico. The school was later named after a prominent farmer and community leader, Louis I. Bussey, and was used for Sunday School classes as recently as 2012.
Year Listed: 1976
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