Skowhegan, a town of Maine, capital of Somerset county, on the Kennebec (which here has a fall of 28 feet), 37 miles by rail NNE. of Augusta. It manufactures flour, oil-cloth, axes, paper, woollens, leather, &c. Pop. 5068.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 490
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