[1] St. David Catholic Church is set on the north side of US Route 1, between the road and the Saint John River.

A third level above the center bay begins the tower, which continues with an open octagonal belfry that has Corinthian columns supporting keystone arches.

[2] The parish of St. David was established in the Diocese of Portland in 1871, after many years of petition by local French Catholics.

The area had been disputed territory between Maine and neighboring New Brunswick, and the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which set the border on the Saint John River, divided the community.

The Catholic population remained part of the Diocese of New Brunswick, but difficulties attending services in Canada, and the unwillingness of diocesan leaders to deal with Maine authorities prompted the drive for division, which was granted by papal decree in 1870.