History of Lewiston, Maine, USA

Journey back in time to Lewiston, Maine, USA

• 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
  
  
• 1839 - Lewiston
  Lewiston, Maine
  Lincoln county. Lewiston lies on the E. side of Androscoggin river, at the falls. The waters of that river descend 47 feet, in the di...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1851 - Damage at Lewiston Falls
  The Portland Advertiser learns that a portion of the Lewiston dam was carried away by the freshet on Monday afternoon. The extent of the injury has no...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Lewiston
  Lewiston, a flourishing post-village of Lincoln county, Maine, is situated on the left bank of the Androscoggin river, and on the Androscoggin and Ken...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  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 Oxford County, showing a rise of thirty-six feet in ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - Snapped Like Threads
  The Bangor (Me.) Whig reports that, owing to the intense cold, the wires of the Western Union Telegraph line, between that city and Lewiston, were rec...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 drawer of a sewing-machine, Thursday morning, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1886 - Lewiston
  Lewiston is practically the centre of Androscoggin County, and is nearly so geographically. It is situated upon the Androscoggin River, which separate...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Lewiston, Me. M.C.R.R. Station
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  Lewiston, Me. Entrance Maine State Fair Grounds.
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•  1891 - Don't Look
  A Lewiston, Maine policeman has had two hotel keepers arrested on a charge of offering him $200 a month not to see anything. The logical inference fro...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1892 - Justice?
  James Reiker, who hasn't got a red, has been in jail nearly four years in Lewiston, Maine, for a debt of $117.15, which he couldn't pay. But he has th...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Lewiston
  Lewiston, the most populous city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. o...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. The theatrical man stands in front of his showhouse...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 is no longer any doubt but that it was murder, but...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 Found in a Pool of Water with the Sparks Playing About...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
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  Androscoggin Mill and Canal
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  Haymarket Square
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  Tacoma Inn, near Lewiston, Me.
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•  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
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  “Wanted – A capable American house girl.” Such is the tenor of many “want” ads running in the newspapers at this time of year...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. The fellow who was possibly six feet in height, wore...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Furniture, Carpets, Bedding, Draperies, Stoves, Ranges, ETc.
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•  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 tragedy occurred in Barkerville yester-day mornin...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 street. These machines were seized by him while he was ci...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1903 - U-No Beer
  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 Sund...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 time. The large chandelier, in the center of the h...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1904 - Passenger Train Wrecked
  Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 27. - Three are dead, nine others seriously injured and some twenty more persons cut and bruised as the result of the wrecking ...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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  Lewiston, Maine
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  Canal Hill and Bates Mills
  
  The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much ... Read MORE...
  
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  Hospital Square
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  Lewiston Me., Looking Down Lisbon Street
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  View from Davids Mt. showing Bates College Buildings, Lewiston, 1906
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  City Hall
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  Post Office, 1907
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  Sisters Hospital
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  De Witt Hotel
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•  1909 - Prisoner Escaped.
  During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer Tuttle that he wanted to telephone friends to get ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  New Elk's Home, 1909
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  Public Library, 1909
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  The Great Department Store
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  St. Mary's French Hospital
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  Healy Asylum
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  Jordan High School
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  Lisbon Street, from Main
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  Lisbon Street, looking up
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  Park St. and M.E. Church
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  New Shrine Building
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•  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 Home
  Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here yesterday. Mrs. White and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Wallace School, 1911
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• 1916
  Lewiston, a city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. of Portland, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Bates College
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  Central Maine Power Company
  Gulf Island Dam, Androscoggin River
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  Lisbon Street Looking South
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• 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 Maine
  Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
  The ...Read MORE...