[2] The town includes the site of a Cold War airplane crash on Bald Mountain.

[1] The small village corporation of Lucerne-in-Maine lies in a summer resort area along Phillips Lake near the center of the town.

It is part of Dedham but has limited taxing and regulatory authority separate from the town's.

In 2017 the village considered dissolving,[3] but continues as a quasi-municipal corporation as of January 2025[update].

SAGE identified the incoming aircraft as a Strategic Air Command bomber shortly after the fighters were airborne.

The fighters' return to Dow was complicated by a light spring rainstorm, creating an icy runway under a 500-foot cloud ceiling.

Dow's tactical air navigation system glide slope function was temporarily disabled after the first aircraft landed.

Investigators concluded the airfield elevation had been incorrectly set on the aircraft altimeter, creating a 1000-foot error unrecognized when aircrew acknowledged only the last two digits of altimeter readings in radio transmissions.