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SKOWHEGAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 194 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SKOWHEGAN , a township and the See also:

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

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