Dexter
Dexter is a census-designated place comprising the main settlement within the town of Dexter in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 2,158 at the 2010 census.- Type: Locality with 2,160 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Penobscot County, Maine
- Also known as: “Dexter, Maine” and “Dexter, ME”
- Postal code: 04930
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbot Memorial Library and Dexter Universalist Church.
Abbot Memorial Library
Library
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Abbott Memorial Library is the public library of Dexter, Maine. It is located at 1 Church Street, in an architecturally sophisticated Renaissance Revival structure, built in 1894 as a gift from George Amos Abbott, a local mill owner.
Dexter Universalist Church
Place of worship
Dexter Universalist Church, or the First Universalist Church of Dexter, is a historic church on Church Street in Dexter, Maine. Built in the 1820s and restyled in the 1860s, it is a distinctive work of Boston, Massachusetts architect Thomas Silloway.
Dexter Regional High School
School
Dexter Regional High School is a public high school in Dexter, Maine, United States. During the 2012–13 school year, DRHS had approx. 300 enrolled students.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ripley.
Ripley
Village
Ripley is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The community was named after Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley of the War of 1812. The population was 484 at the 2020 census. Ripley is situated 4½ miles southwest of Dexter.
Dexter
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and human settlement
- Location: Dexter, Penobscot, Highlands, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Dexter” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديكستر”
- Cebuano: “Dexter”
- Chinese: “德克斯特 (緬因州普查規定居民點)”
- Chinese: “德克斯特”
- French: “Dexter”
- German: “Dexter”
- Irish: “Dexter”
- Italian: “Dexter”
- Kazakh: “Декстэр”
- Ladin: “Dexter”
- Persian: “دکستر (حوزه سرشماری)، مین”
- Persian: “دکستر (حوزه سرشماری)”
- Persian: “دکستر، مین”
- Polish: “Dexter”
- Serbian: “Декстер”
- South Azerbaijani: “دکستر ، مین”
- Spanish: “Dexter”
- Tatar: “Декстер (сан алу урыны, Мэн)”
- Tatar: “Декстер”
- Turkish: “Dexter (sayım yerleşimi”
- Ukrainian: “Декстер”
- Urdu: “ڈیکسٹر (سی ڈی پی”
- Urdu: “ڈیکسٹر، مینے”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dexter Historical Society Museum and Wassookeag Lake Dam.
Highlands: Must-Visit Destinations
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