LEWISTOWN 



3396 



LEXINGTON 



pie (Federal estimate); in 1910 it had 26,247. 

 Three-fifths of the people are foreign born; 

 among these French predominate. 



Androscoggin Valley, in which Lewiston is 

 located, is a fertile, prosperous country, and 

 the city as its center has an important trade 

 in live stock and grain, but it is distinctly a 

 manufacturing city. A great variety of cotton 

 fabrics is woven in its six large cotton mills, 

 and the three woolen mills produce consider- 

 able quantities of blankets, beaver, cassimere 

 and melton cloths. The cotton and woolen 

 mills employ about 7,000 people. In connec- 

 tion with the textile industry the city has one 

 of the most noted bleacheries and dye works in 

 the United States. There are also manufac- 

 tories of leather belting, machinery for weaving 

 mills, carriages and foundry products. The 

 Androscoggin River at this point has a fall of 

 sixty feet, furnishing plentiful water power, 

 which is utilized by an extensive system of 

 canals and dams. Four steel bridges span the 

 river and connect with the city of Auburn, on 

 the west bank. 



Lewiston has a $225,000 city hall, an $85,000 

 post office, and is the state headquarters of the 

 Shriners. In addition to the public school sys- 

 tem there are large parochial schools, a busi- 

 ness college and Bates College (Free Baptist), 

 founded in 1863, the first college in New Eng- 

 land to open its doors to women. There is 

 also a Carnegie Library. An interesting feature 

 of the vicinity is the Maine Fish Hatchery at 

 Lake Auburn, north of the city. J.L.R. 



LEWISTOWN, PA., the county seat of Mif- 

 flin County, south of the center of the state, 

 about eighty miles northwest of Harrisburg, 

 the state capital. It is on the Juniata River 

 and on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and is sur- 

 rounded by a fertile and hilly agricultural 

 country. There are deposits of iron and glass 

 sand in the vicinity, and the city has steel 

 works, foundries, furnaces and manufactories of 

 lumber, flour, silk, edge tools and hosiery. The 

 number of inhabitants in 1910 was 8,166; in 

 1916 it was 10,733 (Federal estimate). 



LEXINGTON, BATTLE OF, the first conflict 

 of the American Revolution, fought on April 

 19, 1775, at Lexington, Mass., a small town 

 eleven miles northwest of Boston. Thomas 

 Gage had been appointed military governor of 

 Massachusetts, which had been deprived of its 

 charter, and whose principal port, Boston, had 

 been closed by order of the king. Gage's 

 authority was never recognized by the colo- 

 nists, and the work of arming the colonial 



militia for defense went steadily on. In the 

 spring of 1775 Gage was ordered to seize John 

 Hancock and Samuel Adams, "arch traitors." 

 On April 18 he mustered 800 men, whom he 



MAP OF BOSTON AND VICINITY 

 ordered to march on Concord, seize the mili- 

 tary supplies and arrest Hancock and Adams 

 at Lexington. His plan was at once suspected 

 by the members of the Boston League, one of 

 whom, Paul Revere, rode from Charlestown to 

 Lexington, rousing to arms the country along 

 his route. Longfellow, in Paul Revere's Ride, 

 describes this famous episode in graphic lan- 

 guage : 



So through the night rode Paul Revere ; 



And so through the night went his cry of alarm 



To every Middlesex village and farm, 



A cry of defiance and not of fear. 



When Gage's men reached Lexington they 

 found seventy militiamen confronting them. 

 There the first 

 shot of the 

 American Revo- 

 lution was fired, 

 and eight militia- 

 men were killed. 

 At Concord the 

 British found the 

 stores removed 

 and a force of 400 

 men awaiting 

 them. Although 

 the English were 

 reenforced by 

 1,000 men, they PARKER MONUMENT 

 retreated toward Erected to the memory of 

 Captain John Parker, corn- 

 Boston, losing 273 mander of the "minutemen" 

 of their number. at Lexington. 



Consult Hudson's History of the Town of Lex- 

 ington. 



LEXINGTON, KY., the county seat of Fay- 

 ette County, situated northeast of the center 

 of the state, thirty miles southeast of Frank- 



