Augusta, the capital of Maine and of Kennebec co., is principally situated on the right or W. bank of the Kennebec River, 44 miles from its mouth. Lat. 44° 19 N.; lon. 69° 50' W. By railroad it is 62 miles N.N.E. of Port land, and 75 miles S.W. of Bangor. It is at the head of navigation from the sea, and is on the Maine Central Rail road, which here crosses the Kennebec River by a bridge 1100 feet long. There is a fine granite state-house, rebuilt and enlarged in 1890 at a cost of $150,000, and on the E. side of the river is the state asylum for the insane (to which large additions costing $250,000 were made in 1889– 90), and a United States arsenal. A United States government building, containing the post-office, pension-office, and court-house, and costing $192,000, was built in 1888–90. Augusta contains a city court-house, enlarged and rebuilt in 1891, 10 churches, 5 banks, 5 large cotton-mills, a pulp mill, and printing-offices which issue a daily, 4 weekly, and 9 monthly periodicals. It has public water-works, electric lights, electric street-cars, fine school buildings, and numerous manufacturing industries, for which the river affords abundant water-power. Pop. in 1870, 7808; in 1880, 8665; in 1890, 10,527.
Augusta, the capital of Maine and of Kennebec co., is principally situated on the right or W. bank of the Kennebec River, 44 miles from its mouth. Lat. 44° 19 N.; lon. 69° 50' W. By railroad it is 62 miles N.N.E. of Port land, and 75 miles S.W. of Bangor. It is at the head of navigation from the sea, and is on the Maine Central Rail road, which here crosses the Kennebec River by a bridge 1100 feet long. There is a fine granite state-house, rebuilt and enlarged in 1890 at a cost of $150,000, and on the E. side of the river is the state asylum for the insane (to which large additions costing $250,000 were made in 1889– 90), and a United States arsenal. A United States government building, containing the post-office, pension-office, and court-house, and costing $192,000, was built in 1888–90. Augusta contains a city court-house, enlarged and rebuilt in 1891, 10 churches, 5 banks, 5 large cotton-mills, a pulp mill, and printing-offices which issue a daily, 4 weekly, and 9 monthly periodicals. It has public water-works, electric lights, electric street-cars, fine school buildings, and numerous manufacturing industries, for which the river affords abundant water-power. Pop. in 1870, 7808; in 1880, 8665; in 1890, 10,527.
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