Dexter
Dexter is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,803 at the 2020 census. The town contains a census-designated place of the same name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,800 residents
- Description: town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States
- 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.
Dexter
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Dexter, Penobscot, Highlands, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
45.0241° or 45° 1′ 27″ northLongitude
-69.29° or 69° 17′ 24″ westPopulation
3,800Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)United Nations Location Code
US XFBOpen location code
87QG2PF5+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 158893800OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dexter” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديكستر”
- Basque: “Dexter”
- Catalan: “Dexter”
- Chechen: “Декстер”
- Chinese: “德克斯特”
- Dutch: “Dexter”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده ديكستر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديكستر”
- French: “Dexter”
- German: “Dexter”
- Haitian: “Dexter, Maine”
- Haitian: “Dexter”
- Hungarian: “Dexter”
- Italian: “Dexter”
- Japanese: “デクスター”
- Kazakh: “Dekstér”
- Kazakh: “Декстэр”
- Kazakh: “دەكستەر”
- Kirghiz: “Декстэр”
- Mazanderani: “دکستر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dexter”
- Norwegian: “Dexter”
- Persian: “دکستر، مین”
- Persian: “دکستر”
- Polish: “Dexter”
- Serbian: “Декстер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dexter, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dexter”
- South Azerbaijani: “دکستر، مئین”
- Spanish: “Dexter”
- Swedish: “Dexter”
- Tatar: “Декстер”
- Turkish: “Dexter”
- Ukrainian: “Декстер”
- Urdu: “ڈیکسٹر، مینے”
- Urdu: “ڈیکسٹر”
- Volapük: “Dexter”
- Welsh: “Dexter, Maine”
- Welsh: “Dexter”
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