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is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,273 at the 2000 census. Whitefield is named for the celebrated British evangelist George Whitefield, who inspired the colonists before the town was settled in 1770, mainly by Irish Catholics. They remembered him when incorporation came in 1809.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.5 square miles (123.1 km²), of which, 46.8 square miles (121.3 km²) of it is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²) of it (1.47%) is water.