Canton is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.

Canton is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area.

Canton Point was the site of Rockemeka, village of the Anasagunticook (or Androscoggin) Abenaki Indians.

The land became part of a grant the Massachusetts General Court awarded to Captain Joseph Phipps and 63 other soldiers for their services during the French and Indian War.

The surface of the town is uneven in the outskirts, but smooth and level at Canton Point, where the soil was considered unsurpassed in the state for agriculture.

In the 19th century, it had a machine shop to manufacture farm implements, a tinware factory, and an iron foundry.

The Rumford Branch of the Maine Central Railroad passed through the town in the late 1850s, carrying freight and also tourists.

Proposals have been floated to replace the vacated lots with parkland or nature trails.

[1] Situated beside Lake Anasagunticook, Canton is drained by Whitney Brook and the Androscoggin River.

It borders the towns of Jay to the northeast, Hartford to the south, Peru to the west, and Dixfield to the northwest.

The road shore beach of Lake Anasagunticook Media related to Canton, Maine at Wikimedia Commons