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census) 11,458. It is served by the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington railway, and two lines of the Maine Central railroad. The Ticonic Falls in the river afford excellent See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, which is used in the manufacture of See also:

cotton and woollen goods. &c. In See also:

WINSLOW, EDWARD (1595-1655)

Winslow (pop. in 1g to, 2709), on the opposite See also:

side of the river and connected by See also:

bridges with Waterville, are large See also:

paper and pulp See also:

mills. Waterville has a See also:

Carnegie library and is the seat of See also:

COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (1784-1852)

Colby See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (Baptist), which was incorporated as the Maine See also:

LITERARY

Literary and Theological Institution in 1813, was renamed Waterville College in 1821, was named Colby University in 1867, in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Gardner Colby (1810--1879), a liberal benefactor, and received its See also:

PRESENT

present name in 1899. Since 1871 See also:

WOMEN

women have been admitted nn the same terms as men. In 1910 the college library contained 51,000 volumes. Waterville was settled about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. It was a See also:

PART

part of the township of Winslow from 1771 to 1802, when it was incorporated as a See also:

SEPARATE

separate See also:

TOWN

town-See also:

SHIP

ship.

It was first chartered as a city in 1883.

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