Dyer Brook, named for the stream that flows through it and into the Mattawamkeag River, was first settled in 1844 when Orrin Laughton came from Smyrna and built a log house. The community was first organized as a plantation for election purposes on September 6, 1858; and by 1880, it had forty voters. After several additional organizations, Dyer Brook was incorporated as a town on March 21, 1891.
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