Lebanon (Maine)

York County

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Lebanon is a municipality in the state of Maine in the United States with 6,031 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The congregation met in the west to the border with New Hampshire and is one of several large settlements (Rochester, Portsmouth, Sanford, etc.) surrounded. Large rivers that run through the town, are the Salmon Falls River and the Little River. The area is primarily agricultural.

The area had been sold in 1733 by Massachusetts under the name Towwhow Plantation (after the Indian name for the area ) to settlers and taken a few years later by them under the plow. To Town, so one administratively separate unit with deputy seat in the Senate of Maine, the town was declared under the present name of Lebanon on June 25, 1767.

1871 reached the Portland and Rochester Railroad with the railway Portland Rochester the place, where he built the station East Lebanon (now Eastwood ). The emigration of inhabitants - 1830-1870 decreased the number of residents increased by 18% from 2391 to 1953 - could not stop the railroad track, on the contrary, to 1930, the number of residents dropped to 1,148. This historic low point, starting the number of inhabitants but has since increased more than fivefold. In particular, the discovery of the place as a recreational area for the residents of large urban centers on the east coast with the simultaneous increase in mobility by the ever wider dissemination of the car is responsible for this development.

In the municipality of all school types are represented through high school. The most important mode of transport is the U.S. Route 202 which runs from south- east to north - west through the territory of the Town and Maine joins the centers on the east coast.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Charles E. Littlefield (1851 - 1915), politician and MP in the U.S. House of Representatives