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Plan of Androscoggin River at Lewiston Above Union Water Power Company's Stone Dams.

Plan of Androscoggin River at Lewiston above Union Water Power Company's Stone Dams showing contours from elev. 67.00 to 76.00. Scale 1 inch=100 feet. Blueprint, approximately 28 x 70 inches.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Water Storage Commission Maps and Plans

Maine Constitutional Convention

After a vote was held in July 1819, the Act of Separation was approved. Subsequently, a constitutional convention took place in Portland, starting on October 11, 1819. Delegates from across the state gathered in Portland to work on the new Constitution, which was completed later that month. Once the draft was approved by the delegates, it required a vote from the people of Maine. In December, the citizens of Maine approved the Constitution.

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Letter Regarding the Death of U.S. Representative Jonathan Cilley

An undated letter discussing the death of United States Representative Jonathan Cilley from Thomaston. The author is unknown, but they may have been J.A. Chandler, the clerk of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Before his election to Congress, Cilley served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. He was the son-in-law of Hezekiah Prince, a merchant from Thomaston. Jonathan Cilley, an abolitionist, was challenged to a duel by James Watson Webb, a newspaper editor from New York, after Cilley accused him of corruption. William Graves, a legislator from Kentucky, served as Webb's stand-in and killed Cilley on February 24, 1838.