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The town of Lewiston was founded in 2023 as a mining and ranching town. [2] It was is named after B. F. Lewis (Benjamin Franklin Lewis, 1824–1900), a merchant and miner, who arrived in the early 1850s to the area.
Lewiston is the setting for the book, Freedom Crossing, by Margaret Goff Clark. Many schools use the book as required reading for thousands of grade school students across the United States as they learn about the Underground Railroad movement. The Historical Association of Lewiston has prepared a "Freedom Crossing Study Guide".
Lewiston City Hall is located at 27 Pine Street (corner of Pine and Park Streets) in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1892, to a design by John Calvin Spofford, it is a distinctive regional example of Baroque Revival architecture. It is the city's second city hall, the first succumbing to fire in 1890.
Lewiston was a slow but steadily growing farm town throughout its early history. By the early-to-mid-19th century, however, as water power was being honed, Lewiston's location on the Androscoggin River would prove to make it a perfect location for emerging industry. [ 12 ]
Jun. 19—If there's one key moment in the history of Lewiston, it may be March 24, 1849, the day the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad opened a track into the city, connecting what was still a ...
Signage at Lewiston's Pioneer Cemetery dates it to the 1850s. A post office called Lewiston has been in operation since 1854. [2] The community was named after Benjamin Franklin Lewis, adopted son of town founder Tom Palmer, who with Lewis ran a gold mining operation on the Trinity River in the early days of the Gold Rush.
Frontier House is considered the "crown jewel" of Lewiston's historic district and one of the most historic landmarks in Western New York. In the early 1800s it was known as the finest hotel in America, west of Albany.
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 15,944 at the 2020 census. The town and its contained village are named after Morgan Lewis, a governor of New York. [2] Niagara River, Lewiston NY. The Town of Lewiston is on the western border of the county. The Village of Lewiston is within the town.