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Maine's second largest
city is situated on
the banks of the Androscoggin
River, midway between
the state's spectacular
coastline and lush mountains,
and alongside the Maine
Turnpike.
In 1768 the Pejepscot
Proprietors, a Boston-based
land company, granted
to Jonathan Bagley and
Moses Little of Newbury,
Massachusetts, land
on the east side of
the Androscoggin River
at Twenty-Mile Falls.
They were to settle
fifty families there
and to build a road
to connect with the
road from Topsham. The
place was named "Lewistown,"
apparently in honor
of the late Job Lewis,
a Boston merchant and
former Proprietor.
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