{"id":2428,"count":1,"description":"Dixmont is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,065 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bangor, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nDixmont's highest hills are Peaked Mountain and Mount Harris, the later 1,160\u00a0ft. above sea level. In 1854 the U.S. Coast Survey erected an observatory on top of Mount Harris.\nLike many Maine towns, Dixmont has multiple villages. The four main ones are Dixmont Corner, North Dixmont, East Dixmont, and Dixmont Center.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.5 square miles (95\u00a0km), of which, 36.3 square miles (94\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52\u00a0km) of it (0.41%) is water.\nDixmont was originally granted by the State of Massachusetts (which Maine was then a part of) to Bowdoin College, which sold the first settlers their land. For that reason it was initially called \"Collegetown\". The first settlement was made in 1799.\nOne of the largest purchasers of land in Collegetown...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/dixmont\/","name":"Dixmont","slug":"dixmont","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}