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GARDINER , a See also:

city of Kennebec See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., at the confluence of Cobbosseecontee See also:river with the Kennebec, 6 m. below See also:Augusta. Pop. (1890) 5491; (1900) 5501 (537 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 5311. It is served by the Maine Central railway. The site of the city is only a few feet above See also:sea-level, and the Kennebec is navigable for large vessels to this point; the See also:water of the Cobbosseecontee, falling about 130 ft. in a mile, furnishes the city with See also:good See also:power for its manufactures (chiefly See also:paper, See also:machine-See also:shop products, and shoes). The city exports considerable quantities of See also:lumber and See also:ice. Gardiner was founded in 176o by Dr See also:Sylvester Gardiner (1707–1786), and for a See also:time the See also:settlement was called Gardinerston; in 1779, when it was incorporated as a See also:town, the founder being then a Tory, it was renamed See also:Pittston. But in 1803, when that See also:part of Pittston which See also:lay on the W. See also:bank of the Kennebec was incorporated as a See also:separate town and new See also:life was given to it by the See also:grandson of the founder, the See also:present name was adopted. Gardiner was chartered as a city in 1849. The town of Pittston, on the E. bank of the Kennebec, had a See also:population of 1177 in 1900.

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