Welcome to Mexico, Maine!

The Town of Mexico is seeking a Full Time (32 hrs. week) Office Clerk.  Please contact the Town of Mexico office at 207 364-7971 for any questions.  Please return cover letter and resume to the Mexico Town Office.  Deadline for all applications is 4 PM on  March 13, 2024.  Interviews to be conducted on March 15, 2024.

Duties include but are not limited to phone and counter work (registrations, taxes, licenses), ordering supplies and daily cleaning of the Town Office.  This position is evolving and duties will be assigned as they come up.

Preferred but not required knowledge:

Working knowledge with computer programs

Prior knowledge of municipal operations

Working knowledge of TRIO Web

The Town of Mexico is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Raquel Welch-Day – Town Manager

 New funding that is available for small businesses:  https://www.mainebusinessrelieffund.com/

Raquel Welch-Day – Town Manager

AUDIT 2022

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the audit report that was supposed to be put into the annual town report was not ready at the time the report release. As stated in the annual report, the audit would be available once it was completed. We are happy to report the Annual Audit for 2022 is now completed and can be viewed by clicking on the following link. Copies of this report can be available upon request.

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

You can re-register your vehicles online through the Rapid Renewal website. Click the picture of the car to go to the website.

 

Read more about the Bicentennial Celebration that happened on February 13, 2018

2020-2021 Annual Town Report Book

The History of Mexico, Maine


In 1789 at Sutton, Massachusetts, the territory known as “Township Number 1” was purchased by Colonel Johnathan Holman and Associates from the Committee for Sale of Eastern Lands. The township was later called Holmanstown and contained 30,020 acres, encompassing what is now the towns of Mexico and Dixfield. Separation into two towns took place in 1803, at which time Dixfield was incorporated, and Holmanstown kept its name. Governed as a plantation until it was incorporated into a town in 1818 under the laws of Massachusetts, of which state, Maine was yet a part. The town is described in history as being “chiefly devoted to her own interests.”  The unique name to this area was inspired by local sympathy for the country of Mexico’s 1810–1821 fight for independence from Spain.

In February 1818, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed as act to establish the Town of Mexico in the County of Oxford. Section 2 of that act instructed that “the inhabitants thereof to meet at such convenient time and place as shall be appointed in the said warrant for the choice of such officers as towns are by law empowered and required to choose, at their annual town meetings. The bill passed the House of Representatives on February 12, 1818, and the Senate on February 13, 1818.

As found in the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Chap. 0106 An Act to establish the town of Mexico, in the county of Oxford.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Plantation here-tofore called Holmanstown, on the north side of Great Amariskoggin River, in the county of Oxford, as contained within the following described boundaries, be, and the same is hereby incorporated and established as a town, by the name of Mexico, viz. easterly by Webb’s river, (the present bounds between Dixfield and said Holmanstown.) southerly by the river Great Amaris-koggin, westerly by the town of Rumford, northerly by the townships or plantations numbered four and seven. And the inhabitants of the said town of Mexico, are hereby vested with all the powers and privileges, and shall be also subject to all the duties and requisitions of other corporate towns, according to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

Sec. 2, Be it further enacted. That any Justice of the Peace for the county of Oxford, upon application therefor, is hereby empowered to issue a warrant, directed to a freehold inhabitant of the said town of Mexico, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof to meet at such convenient time and place, as shall be appointed in the said warrant, for the choice of such officers, as towns are by law empowered and required to choose at their annual town meeting.

[Approved by the Governor, February 13, 1818.]