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Extract from the Augusta Travel Guides: The capital of Maine since 1832,
AUGUSTA
is much quieter and less visited now than it was a hundred years ago. The lumber industry here really took off after the technique of making paper from wood was rediscovered in 1844, and Augusta also had a lucrative sideline - each winter hundreds of thousands of tons of
ice
, cut from the Kennebec River, were shipped out, as far south as the Caribbean, in a trade now all but forgotten by history. There are informative displays on Maine's landscape and industrial past at the lively
Maine State Museum
, a short way south of the capitol on State Street (Mon-Fri...
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