Autumn Colors Reflected on True’s Pond, Montville, Maine

True’s Pond in the hilly town of Montville, Maine, provides a magical backdrop during  winter, spring, summer and fall. Own a classic Maine lakefront camp, cabin or cottage and you’ll enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding hills, mountains and forest.

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Covering 173 acres, True’s Pond has a maximum depth of 17 feet, with a mean depth of 6 feet. It’s a shallow impoundment along the St. George River and provides the headwaters for the Sheepscot River. There are no known invasive aquatic infestations. The water quality is below average.
Where will I launch my boat, you wonder. Small watercraft may be launched at the dam in South Montville or off Route 173 at the northern end of the pond. What fish will I catch? This warmwater fishery offers smallmouth bass, largemouth bass and chain pickerel.
Montville is known for its “Take Back the Land” movement of an earlier era and in 2006 voters passed a binding ordinance to ban the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms. This made Montville the first town outside of California to pass a binding measure restricting genetically modified crops.
Interestingly, back in the late 1700s, one Timothy Barrett, a native of Concord, New Hampshire, settled in Montville, which was then known as Davistown. Virginia Walker wrote in a town history that Mr. Barrett “lived a hermit’s life. He first lived at the head of Ruffingham Meadow in a cave dug into the clay bank. He dug a canal between the Center Stream and the Thompson Brook to furnish power for the old mill below. He later sold his rights and land of 62 acres for one hundred dollars and moved to True’s Pond. There he also lived in a cave and had a floating garden made out of logs and slabs from the mills with dirt on top that he wheeled out into the pond.” Seems as though Mr. Barrett would still feel at home in Montville were he alive today.
The center of this small town houses the grange hall, which was once a cheese factory and now serves as the town hall, a town office and a recently restored one-room school house.
Hiking trails abound in Montville and the surrounding towns of Liberty and Palermo. Hogback Mountain and Frye Mountain are accessible via Route 220. Both offer long ridges with plenty of outlooks. The trail is part of the Georges Highland Path, a forty-mile trail that connects low-impact hikes in this Midcoast Region. Frye Mountain is located within the 5,240-acre Frye Mountain Wildlife Management Area.
Why wait? Make True’s Pond your magical backdrop for a vacation destination and know that you’ll be joining others who care enough to take a stand that helps “all farmers with the protections they deserve to grow the crops that they choose for years to come without the threat of lawsuits or genetic contamination.” Montville is located just three and a half hours north of Boston and only an hour and a half north of Portland.
To view lakefront property listings on True’s Pond, click on the green box above.
To learn more about other lakes and ponds in the Liberty and Palermo area, check out the blog posts below.
Stevens Pond, Liberty, Maine: Lakefront Property Owners Create Family Traditions Here
Lake St. George, Liberty, Maine: Nature’s Candy for the Eye
Branch Pond, Palermo and China, Maine: Lakefront Getaway for All Seasons