TOWN OF PINE HILL FALLS MAINE · INCORPORATED 1891

Pine Hill Falls Town of Pine Hill Falls, Maine

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Living in Pine Hill Falls

Everything is a five-minute walk from the Town Square. You’ll find all you need right here, and nobody has ever had to look anywhere else.

Around the Square

Dot’s diner, a stainless-steel railcar on the square, with pumpkins in the windows

Dot’s

Diner

  • On the Town Square, across from the gazebo
  • Open daily from 6:00 a.m.

A genuine stainless-steel railcar diner with red vinyl stools and pumpkins in the windows. Dot serves scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, skin-on home fries, rye toast and her apple pie. And above all her mushroom pie, grey and golden, which folks here happily eat at ten in the morning.

Dot, the diner’s owner, red-haired, in a pink apron, smiling behind her counter
Dot, behind her counter

“Sit down, hon. I’ll bring you a slice.”

The Hendricks Hardware window with gold lettering, tools on display and a wheelbarrow of rock salt by the door

Hendricks Hardware

Hardware store

  • West side of the Town Square
  • Monday through Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Tools, buckets, rope, rock salt and firewood. Old Mr. Hendricks knows every screw in the store. Come fall, he’s the one who picks the mushrooms for the festival, chanterelles and hedgehogs, from a spot in the woods nobody will tell you about.

The general store with its wooden porch, crates of apples and the yellow festival poster in the window

The General Store

Groceries

  • South side of the Town Square
  • Open daily, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Crates of apples by the door, fresh milk, flour and everything you need for a pie. The yellow festival poster is already up in the window. No need for a shopping list: around here, we know what you need.

Working Here

The red wooden sawmill on the riverbank, just above the waterfall, surrounded by pines

The Sawmill

Pine Hill Falls Lumber Co., est. 1891

  • At the end of Main Street, above the falls

The mill was founded the same year as the town, and it’s what keeps the town going. Gus, the foreman, has worked there for over fifty years. Any new resident who wants a job there starts the following Monday. No diploma, no references required.

Education

The brick elementary school with every shutter closed and a freshly painted hopscotch in the yard

Pine Hill Falls Elementary School

  • At the end of Birch Street

Temporarily closed since ███████ 1█, 19██.

The schoolyard is kept up every week and the hopscotch was repainted this fall. The shutters stay closed. The reopening will be announced on this website.

Town Services

The red-brick Town Hall with its round clock, its flag and four front steps

Town Hall

  • On the Town Square, across from the gazebo

Red brick, two stories, four stone steps. The Mayor’s office is upstairs, under the clock. This is where you pick up your house keys, your resident card and your fishing permit. There is no form for leaving town.

Useful Numbers

  • Town Hall. Just ring the bell. Someone is always in.
  • Sheriff Dale Mercer. No need to call. He’ll be there before you do.
  • Deputy Kyle Pruitt. On motorcycle patrol, day and night.
  • Phones. There’s no cell service in town. There’s still the Cedar Lane phone booth.
  • Doctor. We don’t have one. Nobody ever gets sick.
An old-fashioned phone booth on a sidewalk lined with red maples, its folding door ajar, the receiver on the hook and the phone book hanging on its chain

The Cedar Lane Phone Booth

Public telephone

  • On the Cedar Lane sidewalk, halfway down from the square
  • In service day and night

The kind of phone booth you don’t see anywhere anymore, with a folding door and a phone book hanging on a chain. It’s the only phone in town. Sometimes it rings as you walk by.