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Dover-Foxcroft, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia

Thompson L. Guernsey of Dover-Foxcrost established the first television station in New England when he started operating television station WIXG-TV, Channel 1, Boston.


The Piscataquis Valley Fair is held each August at the fairgrounds in Dover-Foxcroft.


The screen on the first television receiver, invented by Thompson Guernsey of Dover-Foxcroft in the early 1940's, was one and a half inches in diameter.


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