Clinton is a town in Kennebec County, incorporated under the name Maine on August 7, 1848 from Jarvis Gore. The following year, the confusing address Maine, Maine was changed apparently in honor of DeWitt Clinton, builder of the Eire Canal and New York U.S. Senator, Governor, and Mayor of New York City.
Part of the Plymouth Patent, the area was settled about 1775 and became known as Hancock Plantation in 1970.
About halfway between Fairfield and Burnham, the village lies at a hairpin bend in the Sebasticook River on combined Maine Routes 11 and 100. The Morrison's Corner area was settled early, with its 1812 cemetery still use. A large collection of horses inhabit a farm near the Corner.
Further to the north and west, across the Kennebec River from Hinckley lies the Pishon Ferry area, now served by a modern bridge.
