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1880s

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The 1875 bird's-eye view of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, looking east across the Androscoggin River, with the falls, the canals, rows of brick textile mills, church steeples and the street grid climbing the hillsLittle Canada in Lewiston: How a Pasture Became a Neighborhood, Map by Map8 min readOld carte de visite photograph of a bearded, disheveled man believed to be Daniel Wilkinson, about 1883Daniel Wilkinson, the Last Man Maine Ever Hanged9 min read
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