Dover-Foxcroft residents fought to keep their dam, then changed their minds

Dover-Foxcroft residents fought to keep their dam, then changed their minds

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — When Eli Towne was the first permanent settler in Dover in 1803, the Piscataquis River flowed freely through town. Now, more than 220 years later, the river is set to flow freely again. But Neil Mallett, a Dover-Foxcroft resident who claims to be Towne’s distant relative, thinks it shouldn’t. “The dam is part of the town,” Mallett said. “When you come to Dover and look up that river, that’s a beautiful thing.” The Mayo Mi…