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Lewiston, Maine, USA
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Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
"Lewiston, the most £ city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. of Portland, and about 30 miles S.W. of Augusta. It is at the junction of several branches of the Maine Central Railroad with the Auburn & Lewiston Railroad, which connects with the Grand Trunk Railroad. The river here falls about 60 feet, affords abundant water-power, and presents picturesque scenery. Two iron railroad bridges and 2 other bridges cross the river at this place. Lewiston is the second city of Maine in population, and derives its prosperity chiefly from manufactures and trade. It is the seat of Bates College (Free-Will Baptist), which was organized in 1863 and has 11 professors. It has 12 churches, a public library, 2 national banks, 3 savings-banks, and a high school. A dam, or system of dams, costing about $1,000,000, has been constructed here across the river, the water of which is conveyed to the mills by a canal. The Franklin Company own the water power. The capital here invested in manufactures is stated to be $9,000,000, which is distributed among 18 corporations, employing about 8500 persons, and producing goods valued at $11,000,000 in a year, or, including Auburn, $13,000,000. About 40,000,000 yards of cotton and woollen goods are manufactured here annually. The number of spindles in the factories of Lewiston is 285,000. The woollen-mills pro duce fancy cassimeres, beaver cloths, meltons, repellants, &c. Among the other articles made in Lewiston are brushes, files, looms, trunks, brooms, machinery for cotton-mills, ticking, seersucker, duck, burlaps, checks, jute bags, and grain-bags. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop. in 1870, 13,600; in 1880, 19,083; in 1890, 21,701."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
"Lewiston, the most £ city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. of Portland, and about 30 miles S.W. of Augusta. It is at the junction of several branches of the Maine Central Railroad with the Auburn & Lewiston Railroad, which connects with the Grand Trunk Railroad. The river here falls about 60 feet, affords abundant water-power, and presents picturesque scenery. Two iron railroad bridges and 2 other bridges cross the river at this place. Lewiston is the second city of Maine in population, and derives its prosperity chiefly from manufactures and trade. It is the seat of Bates College (Free-Will Baptist), which was organized in 1863 and has 11 professors. It has 12 churches, a public library, 2 national banks, 3 savings-banks, and a high school. A dam, or system of dams, costing about $1,000,000, has been constructed here across the river, the water of which is conveyed to the mills by a canal. The Franklin Company own the water power. The capital here invested in manufactures is stated to be $9,000,000, which is distributed among 18 corporations, employing about 8500 persons, and producing goods valued at $11,000,000 in a year, or, including Auburn, $13,000,000. About 40,000,000 yards of cotton and woollen goods are manufactured here annually. The number of spindles in the factories of Lewiston is 285,000. The woollen-mills pro duce fancy cassimeres, beaver cloths, meltons, repellants, &c. Among the other articles made in Lewiston are brushes, files, looms, trunks, brooms, machinery for cotton-mills, ticking, seersucker, duck, burlaps, checks, jute bags, and grain-bags. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop. in 1870, 13,600; in 1880, 19,083; in 1890, 21,701."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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Add History/News 1785-88 - Many veterans of the Revolution took up lots in "Lewistin."
Town Register of Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds & Green, Maine, H.E. Mitchell Co, Brunswick,ME 1905
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1869 - TELEGRAMS. TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT EASTPORT, ME. Great Destruction of Property and Life. THE STORM IN MAINE....LEWISTON, Me., Oct.9.---The Evening Journal has a report of a great freshet on Swift River, in...Read MORE...
1871 - Snapped Like Threads
The Bangor (Me.) Whig reports that, owing to the intense cold, the wires of the Western Union...Read MORE...
The Bangor (Me.) Whig reports that, owing to the intense cold, the wires of the Western Union...Read MORE...
1886 - Lewiston
Lewiston is practically the centre of Androscoggin County, and is nearly so geographically. It is...Read MORE...
Lewiston is practically the centre of Androscoggin County, and is nearly so geographically. It is...Read MORE...
1886 - History of a Pill Box - Found in the Drawer of a Lewiston Sewing Machine“Hello, what's this!” exclaimed a Lewiston sewing-machine agent, as he picked a pill-box out of the ...Read MORE...
1891 - Don't LookA Lewiston, Maine policeman has had two hotel keepers arrested on a charge of offering him $200 a...Read MORE...
1892 - Justice?James Reiker, who hasn't got a red, has been in jail nearly four years in Lewiston, Maine, for a...Read MORE...
1896 - Bicycles and Business. Hard Times Attributed in Part to the Wheeling Craze.Now the bicycle is accused of responsibility for a lot of hard times in various lines of business....Read MORE...
1900 - Wm. Reed's Tragic Death. A Horrible Fatality in a Lewiston Stable Friday Evening.A Surcharged Incandescent Electric Light Wire Pours Forth Its Fatal Voltage.
The Poor Victim...Read MORE...
1900 - STILL A MYSTERY. Jessie Cobb's Murderer and His Motive Are Not Yet Revealed. LEWISTON POLICE ON THE ALERT. Several of Dead Girls Friends In Sabbattus Interviewed. WHERE IS FRED BROOKS?The veil which covers the crime connected with the Jessie Cobb case, has not yet been raised. There ...Read MORE...
1902 - They Held Hands. Rustic Couple From the Country Create a Whole Lot of Amusement on Lewiston Streets.They were from the country – that – no one who saw the rustic couple would question for a minute....Read MORE...
1902 - THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM - Both Sides of the Question Presented by One Who Has Been Mistress and Maid - The Golden Rule If Applied Would Solve the Problem(Writer for The Sun.)
“Wanted – A capable American house girl.” Such is the tenor of many “want” ...Read MORE...
1903 - THE ODLIN SLOT MACHINES - Taken from Him by the Deputy Sheriffs Yesterday to Be Destroyed Today.
The ex-city marshal Odlin's got a bunch of nickel-in-the-slot machines at his home on Newman...Read MORE...
The ex-city marshal Odlin's got a bunch of nickel-in-the-slot machines at his home on Newman...Read MORE...
1903 - Sheriff Cummings has ordered the U-No beer joints with lunch rooms combined to sell nothing between the hours of twelve Saturday night and twelve Sunday night, save food, coffee or tea.
The proprietors of these places are not allowed to sell a bottle of ginger ale or a glass of Moxie...Read MORE...
The proprietors of these places are not allowed to sell a bottle of ginger ale or a glass of Moxie...Read MORE...
1903 - WONDERFUL ELECTRICITY. City Hall Has Been Thoroughly Wired and Everything is as Brilliant as Daylight.The work of wiring City Hall was completed last evening and the lights were turned on for the first ...Read MORE...
1903 - HILL TRAGEDY. The Son is Alive and Resting Comfortably - An Operation Will be Performed. THE OLD FATHER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INSANE.The Details of the Sad Affair Which Caused a Sensation Yesterday Morning.
A most shocking double ...Read MORE...
1904 - Passenger Train WreckedLewiston, Maine, Sept. 27. - Three are dead, nine others seriously injured and some twenty more...Read MORE...
1905 - A Lewiston man is breaking his frisky young colt by a novel method.He mounts his bicycle and leads his colt up and down the street as fast or as slow as he desires.
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May 21, 1905
1909 - Prisoner Escaped.
During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer ...Read MORE...
During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer ...Read MORE...
1911 - May 22 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May.
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1911 - Senator Frye Dies in Maine - Former President Pro Tem. of National Body Passes Away in Old HomeLewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his...Read MORE...
1916
Lewiston, a city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin...Read MORE...
Lewiston, a city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin...Read MORE...
1936 - Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD
Estimate Eight Thousand Homeless in...Read MORE...
136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD
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