Dixmont is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

Dixmont was originally granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (of which Maine was then a part) to Bowdoin College, which sold the first settlers their land.

One of the largest purchasers of land in Collegetown was Dr. Elijah Dix of Boston, who never lived there but took an interest in its settlement.

Her father was probably the family's land agent, overseeing settlement in Dixmont.

Dixmont was on the main stage-coach route between Bangor and Augusta, and given that it had the highest elevation along that road, it became a natural rest-stop for tired horses.

Wrote William Lloyd Garrison in 1832: "The Dixmont Hills are famous and formidable along this route .

In the 1870s there were two small corporations in Dixmont making cheese, one owned by L.P. Toothacker, and the other by Benjamin Bussey.

[6] A rare earthquake shook North Dixmont (and Unity, Albion, Plymouth, and Weeks Mills) in 1895 but no damage was reported.

Dixmont's highest hills are Peaked Mountain and Mount Harris, the latter 1,230 feet (370 m) above sea level.

In 1854 the United States Coast Survey erected an observatory on top of Mount Harris.

The racial makeup of the town was 98.59% White, 0.38% Native American, 0.47% Asian, and 0.56% from two or more races.

[12] Tyler also built the first Penobscot County Courthouse in Bangor, which does not survive.