County

Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)

 Incorporated

1803 from part of Holmanstown (the remainder being incorporated as Mexico in 1818)

 Previous Designations

Township No. 1, North of the Androscoggin River; Holman and Water's Township; Holman Grant; Holmanstown; Dixtown; Plantation No. 1

 Boundary Changes

Part of Township No. 4 (later Carthage) was annexed in 1822, but returned in 1827 when the act was repealed

 Villages, Locations and Settlements

Dixfield, Dixfield Center, East Dixfield

 Adjacent Towns and Townships

Canton, Carthage, Mexico, Peru, Wilton

 Maps

Historical USGS Maps of Dixfield, Maine

Dixfield Village (1894)

Bird's-Eye View of Dixfield, 1896

 Military Records

Capt. William Wheeler's Company, War of 1812 (raised in Rumford, Bethel, Newry, Andover, Peru, Dixfield, Albany, Waterford, and Norway)

 Vital Records

Dixfield Vital Records, 1898-99

 General Resources

Family History Library Catalog: Dixfield, Oxford, Maine

Dixfield Historical Society

Official Website: Town of Dixfield

 Bibliography

_____, 1906 Directory of Rumford, Mexico and Dixfield, Maine (Auburn, Me.: Merrill & Webber, 1906)

______, The Early History of Dixfield Maine: including the section of Mexico near Webb's River (Dixfield, Me.: The Dixfield Bicentennial Committee: The Dixfield Historical Society, 1976)

Bateman, Lucius C., Dixfield Woman Recalls Both Indians and Bears in That Vicinity," Lewiston Journal Illustrated Magazine Section, 24 Mar. 1917

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McLaughlin, William (Standford Carver, Bruce Berry, editors), Daily Pocket Diary of William McLaughlin (Dixfield, Maine) for the year 1861: an annotated transcription ([S.l.: s.n.], 2003)

Mitchell, Harry Edward, The Canton and Dixfield Register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me. The H. E. Mitchell co., 1905)

Stowell, Peter Russell, Frank Stanley's Scrapbook: from July 13, 1873 to July 18, 1947 ([Dixfield, Me.]: Dixfield Historical Society, 2003)