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Pittsfield
has long been a commercial and industrial center in central Maine. From a long history as a mill town, the community has evolved into a diversified industrial center with the electronics and shoe industry, a church vestments manufacturer, engineering and construction firms, wood products manufacturing and more. It offers new business opportunities at its busy Pittsfield Industrial Park on the main line of the Guilford Transportation rail line and located next to Exit 38 of Interstate 95.
As home to this diversified atmosphere of workers, the community offers a variety of activities and facilities for families and individuals. It is a community of many parks and sports fields including the 70-acre Manson Park, home of the now-historic Central Maine Egg Festival; Hathorn Park in the center of town featuring a traditional bandstand where concerts are frequently held in the summer months; Stein Park, a showcase for the local garden club bordering picturesque Mill Pond and Pinnacle Park, home to the Pinnacle Ski Club, a group promoting skiing and instruction for ages. Golfers are served by a nine-hole course at J.W. Parks Golf Course. Recreational and business flyers can take advantage of the Pittsfield Municipal Airport. Snowmobilers traverse the community in season and have access to a statewide trail system aided by the Pittsfield Driftbusters Snowmobile Club.
Pittsfield is unique as the only town of its size to own a community movie theatre showing first-run movies daily and at reduced rates.
Sebasticook Valley Hospital provides health care for the region with a modern, 28-bed hospital and a broad range of services with the newly-constructed Outpatient and Women’s Health Center and other facilities for rehabilitation and home health care.
Pittsfield is home to one of the oldest college preparatory schools in New England. Founded in 1866, Maine Central Institute is a prominent part of the landscape with its traditional, ivy-covered halls and tree-lined campus. The school provides secondary education for the students of SAD 53, Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield as well as a multicultural residential population from across the country and around the world. The school is home to the Bossov School of Ballet and a training ground for many Division I and NBA basketball players.
The progressive attitudes of its earliest settlers remain in the community today with a forward-thinking town council form of government and active business and civic organizations. Town leaders encourage visitors and residents to learn more about Pittsfield at www.pittsfield.org.
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