Bounded by Androscoggin R., Lisbon, Locust & Bates Sts., Lewiston, Maine. County/parish: Androscoggin.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 14, 2015. NRIS 15000415.
79 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 30 contributing structures.
The Lewiston Mills and Water Power System Historic District encompasses the major 19th-century mill complexes and associated water power systems in Lewiston, Maine. Developed beginning in 1850, Lewiston's canals and mills were the largest textile mill complex in the state, and one of the best-preserved mature large-scale expressions of the Lowell system of cotton textile manufacturing, perfected at Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts earlier in the 19th century. The district includes a series power canals and mill complexes developed over a 100-year period, along with mill worker housing and transportation infrastructure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
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