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Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Sebasticook dams & Josiah Hayden

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by Mary Grow An on-line map of Winslow, Maine (which readers might find helpful), shows the Kennebec River, running roughly north-south, as the town’s western boundary. The Sebasticook River joins the Kennebec from the east about halfway between the town’s north and south lines. Outlet Stream flows north across Winslow’s south boundary from Vassalboro and […]

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Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Augusta fires & fire departments – Part 2

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by Mary Grow Another fire Augusta historian James North described was the one that destroyed Augusta’s bridge across the Kennebec River the night of April 2, 1827. (See the July 28, 2022, issue of The Town Line.) It was spotted a little after 11 p.m. and spread so fast that the “citizens [who] rushed to […]

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Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Kingsbury’s people

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by Mary Grow This article is for people who enjoy an occasional glimpse into someone else’s life – nothing scandalous or earth-shaking, just odds and ends about the ordinary lives of people in another time. The main source is Henry D. Kingsbury’s Kennebec County history. The Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1892 was first […]