Waterville, Maine Waterville, Maine Official seal of Waterville, Maine Location in Kennebec County and the state of Maine.
Location in Kennebec County and the state of Maine.
Waterville, Maine is positioned in the US Waterville, Maine - Waterville, Maine Body Waterville City Council One Post Office Square, a multiple-use facility, in downtown Waterville View of downtown Waterville (2014) Waterville is a town/city in Kennebec County of the U.S.
State of Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River.
Waterville is also the second town/city which makes up the Augusta-Waterville, ME Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Waterville has a Mayor and council-manager form of government, led by a mayor and a seven-member town/city council.
The town/city council is the governing board, and the town/city manager is the chief administrative officer of the City, responsible for the management of all City affairs.
The film Wet Hot American Summer is set in Waterville.
The region now known as Waterville was once inhabited by the Canibas tribe of Abenaki Indians.
Called Taconnet after Chief Taconnet, the chief village was positioned on the east bank of the Kennebec River at its confluence with the Sebasticook River at what is now Winslow.
When inhabitants on the west side of the Kennebec found themselves unable to cross the river to attend town meetings, Waterville was set off from Winslow and incorporated on June 23, 1802.
Ticonic Falls blocked navigation farther upriver, so Waterville advanced as the end for trade and shipping.
On September 27, 1849, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad opened to Waterville.
West Waterville (renamed Oakland) was set off as a town in 1873.
Waterville was incorporated as a town/city on January 12, 1888. The iron Waterville-Winslow Footbridge opened in 1901, as a means for Waterville inhabitants to commute to Winslow for work in the Hollingsworth & Whitney Co.
Waterville also advanced as an educational center.
It would be retitled Waterville College in 1821, then Colby College in 1867.
The Latin School was established in 1820 to prepare students to attend Colby and other colleges, and was later titled Waterville Academy, Waterville Classical Institute, and Coburn Classical Institute; the Institute consolidated with the Oak Grove School in Vassalboro in 1970, and remained open until the 1980s.
The first enhance high school was assembled in 1877, while the current Waterville Senior High School was assembled in 1961. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Postcards of Waterville, Maine.
Waterville is positioned at 44 33 07 N 69 38 45 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.05 square miles (36.39 km2), of which 13.58 square miles (35.17 km2) is territory and 0.47 square miles (1.22 km2) is water. Situated beside the Kennebec River, Waterville is drained by the Messalonskee Stream.
Waterville is served by Interstate 95 (Maine), Maine State Routes 137, 104 and U.S.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Waterville has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Waterville, Maine Like many other suburbs in Maine and in the United States, Waterville has seen evolution in the suburbs and the diminish of the downtown area. There have been new businesses and new facilities assembled by Inland Hospital on Kennedy Memorial Drive.
The large vacancy in The Concourse shopping center that once homed the Ames, Zayre department store, as well as Brooks Pharmacy is struggling to find tenants; as is the now vacant Main Street locale of a CVS pharmacy (it moved to a brand new building on Kennedy Memorial Drive). Organizations like Waterville Main St continue their accomplishments to revitalize downtown.
Population of Waterville, ME from 2000 to 2015.
There were 6,370 homeholds of which 24.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 32.9% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 48.6% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.7% under the age of 18, 18.5% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Statewide, 10.9% of the populace was below the poverty level. In Kennebec County, 11.1% of the populace was below the federal poverty level.
Thus, although the county poverty rate is close to the state poverty rate, the poverty rate for Waterville is higher typical for a county-wide center whose suburbs have grown in population.
Waterville City Hall (2014) Waterville has a Mayor and council-manager form of government, led by a mayor and a seven-member town/city council.
The town/city council is the governing board, and the town/city manager is the chief administrative officer of the City, responsible for the management of all City affairs.
In 2005 voters allowed a new charter, which changed Waterville's government from a strong Mayor council government to the Council-Manager format.
Waterville is considered a Democratic stronghold in Maine's 1st congressional district. Barack Obama received 70% of Waterville's votes in the 2008 presidential election. Pan Am Railways: Waterville Intermodal Facility Waterville is the set locale of Camp Firewood in the Netflix show Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
Waterville is home to one daily newspaper, the Morning Sentinel and a weekly, The Colby Echo.
Monument to Union Army soldiers in Waterville Waterville Country Club golf course Waterville Historical Society - Redington Museum Waterville Public Library Waterville Opera House Waterville Main Street Waterville - Winslow Footbridge (Two Cent Bridge) Main article: List of citizens from Waterville, Maine List of mayors of Waterville, Maine a b "History in Waterville, Maine -".
(1886), Gazetteer of the state of Maine.
Waterville, Boston: Russell Stephen Plocher, "A Short History of Waterville, Maine" (2007) "Waterville, Maine Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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Waterville's downtown center faces burgeoning challenges Central Maine Growth Council Archived November 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
"Appendix E Waterville, Maine Intermodal Facility - Review of Environmental Factors - FHWA Freight Management and Operations".
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