Waterville
Waterville is a small city on the Kennebec River, home to Colby College. Because of its location along a former migration corridor between Quebec and New England, Franco-American culture is evident here.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Jody Roberts, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 16,600 residents
- Description: city in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Ticonic Falls”, “Waterville, Maine”, and “Waterville, ME”
- Postal codes: 04901 and 04903
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Halifax and Waterville Opera House and City Hall.
Fort Halifax
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Halifax is a former British outpost on the banks of the Sebasticook River, just above its mouth at the Kennebec River, in Winslow, Maine. Originally built as a wooden palisaded fort in 1754, during the French and Indian War, only a single blockhouse survives.
Waterville Opera House and City Hall
Theater building
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Waterville Opera House and City Hall is a historic civic building at Castonguay Square in downtown Waterville, Maine. Built at the turn of the 20th century, it is one of a small number of multifunction civic buildings, housing both a live performance venue and municipal facilities, functions it continues to perform today.
First Baptist Church
Church
Photo: Hugh Manatee, Public domain.
The First Baptist Church is a historic church at 1 Park Street in Waterville, Maine. Built in 1826, it is the city's oldest standing public building. It was renovated in 1875 to a design by Francis H.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winslow and Waterville Main Street Historic District.
Winslow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winslow is a town in the Kennebec and Moose River Valleys region of Maine, along the Kennebec River across from Waterville.
Waterville Main Street Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Waterville Main Street Historic District encompasses the best-preserved portions of the historical commercial downtown area of Waterville, Maine. Developed most intensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this area was the center of commerce for Waterville and the surrounding rural communities.
Waterville
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Waterville, Kennebec, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.5506° or 44° 33′ 2″ northLongitude
-69.6303° or 69° 37′ 49″ westPopulation
16,600Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)IATA airport code
WVLOpen location code
87PGH929+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 158813569OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waterville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ووترفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Uotervil”
- Basque: “Waterville”
- Bengali: “ওয়াটাারভিল”
- Catalan: “Waterville”
- Cebuano: “Waterville”
- Chechen: “Вотервиль”
- Chinese: “Waterville”
- Chinese: “沃特維爾”
- Chinese: “沃特维尔”
- Czech: “Waterville”
- Dagbani: “Waterville”
- Danish: “Waterville”
- Dutch: “Waterville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ووترفيل”
- Esperanto: “Waterville”
- Finnish: “Waterville”
- French: “Waterville”
- German: “Waterville”
- Gilaki: “واترويل (مین)”
- Gilaki: “واترويل”
- Greek: “Γουότερβιλ”
- Gujarati: “વૉટરવિલ”
- Hebrew: “ווטרוויל”
- Hindi: “वाटरविल्ले”
- Hungarian: “Waterville”
- Indonesian: “Waterville”
- Irish: “Waterville”
- Italian: “Waterville”
- Japanese: “ウォータービル”
- Kannada: “ವಾಟರ್ ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Vatérvïll”
- Kazakh: “Ватэрвилл”
- Kazakh: “ۆاتەرۆىيلل”
- Kirghiz: “Ватэрвилл”
- Kirghiz: “Уатэрвилл”
- Korean: “워터빌”
- Ladin: “Waterville”
- Latvian: “Votervila”
- Lithuanian: “Votervilis”
- Malagasy: “Waterville, Maine”
- Malagasy: “Waterville”
- Malay: “Waterville”
- Marathi: “वॉटरविले”
- Mazanderani: “واترویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waterville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterville”
- Norwegian: “Waterville”
- Persian: “واترویل، مین”
- Persian: “واترویل”
- Persian: “وترویل”
- Polish: “Waterville”
- Portuguese: “Waterville”
- Russian: “Уотервилл”
- Serbian: “Вотервил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waterville, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waterville”
- Sinhala: “වොටර්විල්”
- Slovak: “Waterville”
- Slovenian: “Waterville”
- South Azerbaijani: “واترویل، مئین”
- Spanish: “Waterville (Maine)”
- Spanish: “Waterville”
- Swedish: “Waterville, Maine”
- Swedish: “Waterville”
- Tamil: “வாடெர்வில்லே”
- Tatar: “Вотервиль”
- Telugu: “వాటర్ విల్లే”
- Thai: “วอเตอร์วิลล์”
- Turkish: “Waterville, Maine”
- Turkish: “Waterville”
- Ukrainian: “Вотервіль”
- Urdu: “واٹرویل، میئن”
- Uzbek: “Waterville”
- Vietnamese: “Waterville”
- Volapük: “Waterville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterville, Maine”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterville”
- Welsh: “Waterville, Maine”
- Welsh: “Waterville”
- “Waterville”
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