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Right about this time, on the first of September, 1875, the town of Waterford observed its centennial anniversary of settlement, observing the date when in 1775 the very first settler to that village, David McWain, is said to have arrived. The extensive celebrations of the day, documented in The Bridgton News of Sept. 3 and still largely intact despite some damage to the surviving copy of that issue, are worthy of our notice in this 250th year of American Independence, especially since so many towns in this part of Maine have recently, or will have soon, cause of their own to celebrate various anniversaries of settlement or incorporation.
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