LEWISTON, a t. of Maine, on the. Androscoggin river, 33 m. n. of Portland. The river has here a fall of 50 ft. in 200. and the water-power is distributed by s dam and canal to numerous manufacturing companies, large saw mills. etc. There are several churches, newspapers, sehoolS, and a college. Pop. MUM LEWIST07.s; (ante), a t. in s.w. Maine, 30 m. s.w. of Augusta, incorporated 1795; city charter granted, 1861: city government organized, 1863; the terminus of the branch railroad from Crowley's junction to Lewiston. and is on the Maine Central railroad, connecting with the Grand Trunk and the Boston and Maine by way of Auburn and Danville; pop. '80, 19,083. It is in the co. of Androscoggin, and is a manufacturing town of importance. It is connected with the w. bank of the river by fourbridges, two of which are of iron for the use of the railroads,and its prosperity, in manufactures and trade, has given it the rank and consequence of the second city of Maine. It contains Bates college, a Free-will Baptist institution organized in 1863, named in honor of Benja min E. Bates of Boston, who gave it $200,000; a theological school connected with the college, organized 1870; and the Nichols Latin school, named from Lyman Nichols of Boston, connected with the same institution. It has a public library of inure than 6,000
volumes, 13 churches. 3 newspapers, including the Lewiston, Erening Journal, and a monthly magazine, published by the college students, a fine building for city offices, an elegant city ball, excellent public schools, with substantial edifices, a soldiers' monu ment in the park, and gas-works. It has 2 national banks, one with a capital of $400, 000, and 3 savings banks. The construction of the dam cost $1,000,000, the water-power, including the canal, 60 ft. wide, being owned by the Franklin company, incorporated in 1854. It has 18 manufacturing corporations, employing 8,500 hands, with a capital of $9,000.000, and an annual product of $11,000,000. Number of yards of cotton and woolen goods manufactured annually, 40,000,000. Number of spindles, 285,000; other industries are the manufacture of cotton and woolen machinery for factories, brushes, boots and shoes, files, trunks, ticking, burlaps. jute bags, and duck. Its bleaching and dye-works are managed with a capital of $300,000, employing 280 hands. It has many attractions for the tourist in its fine natural scenery.