Mount David (Maine)

Mount David (also known as Mount Davis, Davis Mountain, and David's Mountain) is a rocky summit in Lewiston, Maine, on the campus of Bates College in back of Rand Hall.

It is one of the highest points in Lewiston at 381 feet and offers views of the White Mountains including Mount Washington on a clear day.

[3] At the opening ceremony of College in 1857, a pastor told the new students that if David Davis were still living he would have exhorted them to “go up that mountain, where you will obtain a view of our united villages.

Make your principles as firm as the granite base on which the mountain rests.”[4] Several of Davis' descendants attended Bates.

[2] In the 1860s, Davis' heirs, including Mrs. Archibald Wakefield and Mrs. John M. Frye donated a site on the summit of Mount David to Bates College to build an observatory.