The Museum in the Streets®: Auburn-Lewiston, Maine Historical Markers

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The Museum in the Streets®: Auburn-Lewiston, Maine Historical Markers

By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), November 11, 2021

Amitgonpontook Marker

1 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A15 — Amitgonpontook — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Before it was L-A, this place was Amitgonpontook, which means "the place to dry the fish at the falls." For generations Wabanakis harvested migrating fish each spring. In 1794 Perepol described how travel made this place a part of . . . — — Map (db m186016) HM

2 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A1 — Androscoggin Log Drives / Les Draves Sur L'Androscoggin — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Rivers were the transportation and power for Maine's logging industry from the first sawmill in 1630 in Berwick until 1974. Lewiston's first sawmills were located near the Great Falls. Throughout the year, hardy loggers cut the trees . . . — — Map (db m186026) HM

3 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A5 — Auburn L.L. Bean Store / Le Magasin L.L. Bean À Auburn — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of the Maine company L.L. Bean, began his career in Freeport. In 1902, he moved to W.H. Moody's shoe store at 74 Main Street in Auburn. Soon, with Moody's permission, Bean began to sell pants over the . . . — — Map (db m186027) HM

4 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — Map — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Welcome to Auburn's Museum in the Streets^® Historic Walking Tour. Auburn's history is a manifold tale of Native Americans and settlers; entrepreneurs and visionaries; industrialization and the American . . . — — Map (db m185956) HM

5 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — Map — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

6 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A12 — Development of New Auburn / Le Nouvel Auburn — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Barker Mill, at 143 Mill Street, was a catalyst for the residential development of what became known as "New Auburn." Auburn had recently annexed Danville in 1867. The Little Androscoggin Water Power Company was formed in 1870 . . . — — Map (db m186001) HM

7 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A14 — Ecology of the Riverbanks / La Biodiversité des Berges — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The banks of the river are home to a variety of plants and animals. If you take the time to walk slowly along its shores, you will catch a glimpse of a once-vast forest ecosystem known as "The Northern Hardwood Forests." These . . . — — Map (db m186012)

8 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A7 — Edward Little House 1827 / La Maison d'Edward Little 1827 — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Squire Edward Little is called the "father" of Auburn and Lewiston. He inherited vast tracts of land from his father. In 1826, at the age of 53, he moved to Danville (now Auburn) and built what his father called an "extravagant" . . . — — Map (db m185965) HM

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9 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A8 — Foss Mansion / Le Manoir Foss — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Horatio and Ella Foss Mansion, completed in 1917, is one of the architectural "grande dames" of Auburn, blending Georgian Revival and Spanish influences. Foss owned Dingley, Foss & Company, shoe manufacturers. Ella Foss willed . . . — — Map (db m185969) HM

10 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A4 — Great Falls Geology / La Géologie des Grandes Chutes — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

These jagged, rocky outcrops that we call the "Great Falls" are actually a combination of three distinct rock formations. The oldest rocks were laid down from 20 to 435 million years ago as continents collided! Over time, they slowly . . . — — Map (db m186020)

11 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A13 — Great New Auburn Fire / Le Grand Incendie du Nouvel-Auburn — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Great New Auburn Fire was started by an 11-year-old boy behind a gas station on Mill Street just after lunchtime on Monday, May 15, 1933. The fire, pushed by high gusting winds, spread rapidly through old wooden tenements and . . . — — Map (db m186004) HM

12 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A3 — Hydroelectric Power / L'Énergie Hydraulique — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Androscoggin River's great power has played a tremendous role in the development of the Lewiston-Auburn communities. The river drops more than 1,500 feet along its journey from the Rangeley Lakes, one of the steepest gradients of . . . — — Map (db m186023) HM

13 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A2 — Knight House / La Maison Knight — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Named for the Knight family, the building's longest occupants, the "Knight House" stands as the oldest frame house in downtown Auburn. It is a typical example of houses built in the late 1700s. Nathaniel Knight was a butcher and meat . . . — — Map (db m186025) HM

14 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A9 — Lewiston Falls Academy / L'Académie de Lewiston Falls — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

If a community were to amount to something, Edward Little believed it should have an institution of secondary education. In 1834 he convinced the Maine Legislature to charter the Lewiston Falls Academy. little provided money to . . . — — Map (db m185971) HM

15 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A11 — River Pollution and Restoration / Pollution et Restoration de la Rivière — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

As with many American rivers that fueled the Industrial Revolution, the Androscoggin has a complex history. It was once considered one of the "Top Ten" most polluted rivers in the country. The paper mills along the river accounted . . . — — Map (db m185995) HM

16 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A6 — Roak Block — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

A growing demand for shoes and boots during the Civil War established Auburn as a shoe manufacturing center. Jacob Roak, Ara Cushman, Jeremiah Dingley and others strived to build "a first-rate shoe manufacturing center." Roak Block, . . . — — Map (db m186028) HM

17 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Auburn — A10 — Wabanaki History / Les Wabanaquis — Auburn, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Wabanaki History: From Amitgonpontook to Lewiston-Auburn During the 1680s several hundred Wabanakis fled the English wars of conquest in the south and gathered here at the town of Amitgonpontook. Nearby fish, farm crops, and . . . — — Map (db m185978) HM

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18 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L15 — 10,000 Years of Wabanaki History / 10 000 Ans d'Histoire Wabanaki — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Welcome to part of the Wabanaki homeland, Wabanakis—the People of the Dawnland—are the Indigenous peoples of northern New England and southeastern Canada. The four federally recognized peoples in Maine are the Penobscots, . . . — — Map (db m185980) HM

19 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L14 — Canal System / Les Canaux — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

If you've ever seen a working factory, you know they require a lot of power. In Lewiston in the 1800s, the best source was the Androscoggin River. Canals extended that power beyond the riverbanks, making it possible to develop . . . — — Map (db m185983) HM

20 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L1 — Early Industry / Les Débuts de L'Industrie — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Lewiston's industry began with the Harris sawmill beside the falls. In 1809, Josiah Little's family built a large wooden building for saw, grist, and fulling mills under one roof. When the mill burned in 1829, the Littles built a . . . — — Map (db m186038) HM

21 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L13 — Grand Trunk Depot / La Gare d'Arrivée du Grand Trunk — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Grand Trunk Depot, known simply as "The Depot," is a longstanding monument of Lewiston-Auburn's social and industrial history. Around the time of the Civil War, Lewiston's economy was booming as many Canadians immigrated to the . . . — — Map (db m185989) HM

22 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L4 — Haymarket Square / La Place du Marché des Fourrages — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Where could latter 19th century city residents buy hay for their horses or wood for their stoves? Farmers brought hay, wood, and other produce to Haymarket Square in this wide-open space on Main Street. However, by 1898, the city . . . — — Map (db m186050) HM

23 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — Map — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Welcome to Lewiston's Museum in the Streets® historic walking tour. Along this trail you will discover the rich heritage of Maine's second largest city. Illustrated panels guide you along the Androscoggin River and through the . . . — — Map (db m185985) HM

24 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — Map — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

25 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L5 — Music Hall — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

After a fire destroyed several stores in 1877, leading citizens, among them Congressman William P. Frye, decided to construct "the best opera house east of Boston." The offerings featured travelling stock companies, minstrels, drama, . . . — — Map (db m186045) HM

26 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L3 — Peck's Department Store / Le Grand Magasin Peck — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets® —

Bradford Peck prospered in his Lisbon Street stores. In 1899, he opened the largest department store east of Boston on Main Street. Naysayers predicted bankruptcy, for they believed that customers would not cross Main Street from . . . — — Map (db m186047) HM

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27 ► Maine, Androscoggin County, Lewiston — L2 — Veterans Memorial Park / Le Parc des Vétérans — Lewiston, Maine — The Museum in the Streets —

Once a fishing spot for indigenous peoples and then the origin of Lewiston industry, Veterans Memorial Park was dedicated in September 2004. This park is the culmination of efforts from the L/A Veterans Council to garner donations . . . — — Map (db m186044) HM

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