I've seen Dixontown Road and have driven on it. I've looked at maps of the area. I checked Bisbee's Sign Posts. I'm still not sure where Dixontown was/is and what it was. Would anyone have some ideas about this?
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Dixontown?
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Dixontown was located on the northeast side of Dixontown Road centered around the stream that supplies the cranberry bogs downstream from the road. Members of the Dixon or Dickson family resided there and it appears a Thomas Dickson or Dixon may have been the familial patriarch. He was a collier born in the late eighteenth century. A Methodist congregation worshiped in an edifice there for a time as depicted on the Medford plate of the Scott 1876 atlas. The Methodist meetinghouse stood northwest of that watercourse, which might be named "Little Creek." The presence of this sanctuary likely led to the moniker of "Dixontown" because churches serve as one of three nuclei for community development, the other two nuclei being schools and taverns.
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Jerseyman
