Waterville

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 578

Waterville, a village of Maine, on the Kennebec (navigable to this point by a dam and locks at Augusta), at Ticonic Falls (18 feet), 19 miles by rail N. by E. of Augusta. It contains several mills and factories, and is the seat of Colby University (Baptist; 1820). Pop. 7107.

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