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Dover-Foxcroft is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and the county's largest town and county seat. The population was 4,213 at the 2010 census. Dover-Foxcroft is home to the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival, an annual one-day event which takes place in late June each year. It started in 2009 to honor the whoopie pie. The whoopie pie became the official state treat of Maine in 2013. The 2012 festival brought 5,000 people to the town while the 2014 event brought in more than 7,500 attendees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Over 7,500 People Celebrate the Maine Whoopie Pie )〕 ==History== It was originally two towns, Dover and Foxcroft, separated by the Piscataquis River (Dover is on the south side, Foxcroft on the north). Dover was purchased from Massachusetts by Boston merchants Charles Vaughan and John Merrick, both of whom had emigrated from England. It was first permanently settled in 1803 by Eli Towne from Temple, New Hampshire, then incorporated on January 19, 1822. Agriculture was the principal early occupation, producing potatoes, corn and grain.〔 〕 Originally known as T5 R7 NWP, Foxcroft was one of five towns conveyed by Massachusetts in 1796 to Bowdoin College. It was purchased from the college in 1800 by Joseph E. Foxcroft of New Gloucester and settled by John, Eleazer and Seth Spaulding in 1806, when they built the first mill. It was dubbed Spauldingtown until February 29, 1812, when it was incorporated as Foxcroft, taking its proprietor's name.〔 〕 The Piscataquis River offered water power sites for mills. In 1859, when the population was about 2,500, industries included four sawmills, shingle and clapboard manufacturers, one gristmill, two tanneries, two carriage makers, and a woolen factory. By 1859, when the population was 1,045, industries included two sawmills, one shingle mill, one carding machine, one carriage builder, one chairman manufacturer, one tannery, one fork maker, two pail makers, one machinist, and a sash, door and blind factory. In 1866 the Hughes & Son Piano Mfg. Co. was established and ran until closed in 1921. (source: Pierce Piano Atlas 11th ed. ISBN 0-911138-04-8) On March 1, 1922, the two towns merged into a single town. The American Woolen Company Foxcroft Mill is an historic district of industrial buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2012. It contains buildings built between 1841 and 1944. File:Blethen House, Dover, ME.jpg|Blethen House c. 1910 File:Lincoln Street, Foxcroft, ME.jpg|Lincoln Street c. 1905 File:High Water, Foxcroft, ME.jpg|High water in 1909 In 2014, the American Pizzeria Appreciation Society named Dover-Foxcroft "Pizza Town USA 2014." This honor was based on the town's relative concentration of pizza restaurants. According to APAS, Dover-Foxcroft has more pizza restaurants per citizen than any other municipality in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dover-Foxcroft, Maine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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