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Encyclopedia Britannica



SKOWHEGAN

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 194 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SKOWHEGAN , a township and the county-seat of Somerset county,
Maine
 , U.S.A., on the Kennebec river, about39 m.-N. of Augusta. Pop. (189o) 5068, (1900) 5180, of whom 4266 were inhabitants of Skowhegan
village
 ; (r910) 5341. Skowheganis the terminus of a branch of the
Maine
  Central railway. The township covers an area of about 5o sq. m., and has a public library,- a fine
court
 
house
  and Coburn Park. The farms of the township are devoted largely to dairying.
Paper
  and pulp, wooden-
ware
 , woollen and worsted goods, &c., are manufactured. Skowhegan was settled as a
part
  of
Canaan
  about 1770. In 1814 the township of Bloomfield was erected out of the southern portion of
Canaan
 . In 1823 a second township was erected out of what then remained; this was called Milburn at first, but in 1836 the former Indian name, Skowhegan, said to mean " spearing " or " watching place, was adopted. Bloomfield was annexed to Skowhegan in 1861: The
village
  of Skowhegan was incorporated about 1856.


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