Notable People
- Ole Bull, violinist and composer (summer resident)
- Oren B. Cheney, clergyman, abolitionist, founded Bates College
- Elihu B. Hayes, manufacturer, newspaper owner and politician
- Charles Coffin Jewett, superintendent of the Boston Public Library
- Sumner Increase Kimball, organized the United States Life-Saving Service
- Charles E. Littlefield, US congressman
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