Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Immigrants
by Mary Grow Middle Easterners, Waterville, & Irish, Augusta The French-Canadians and the Irish were not the only groups coming to the central Kennebec Valley from other countries. Stephen Plocher wrote in his Waterville history (found on line) that in the 1860s, people he called “Syrian-Lebanese” from Syria (Lebanon and Syria were French mandates until […]