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17 unusual facts about Waterville


Commercial Cable Company

The technology was well established by this time, and they were able to lay cables from Waterville in Ireland to Canso, Nova Scotia, without the major technical problems of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.

Gene Chouinard

During the 1927–28 Chouinard played for the Quebec Castors, the Waterville, Maine, and he also joined the Ottawa Senators for eight games during the 1927–28 NHL season.

Maine Central class K 0-6-0

Earlier K class 0-6-0s were rebuilt with higher-pressure boilers in Maine Central's Waterville shop between 1913 and 1916 as sub-classes K-6 and K-7.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1958

Democrat Clinton Clauson, then mayor of Waterville, unexpectedly defeated Muskie's chosen Democratic candidate in the primary, and faced off against the popular previous two term Republican Governor, Horace A. Hildreth in the general election.

Pro Wrestling America Live

Pro Wrestling America Live, commonly known as just Pro Wrestling America, is a New England independent professional wrestling promotion based in Waterville, Maine.

Renard GAA

In 1942 playing as "Con Keatings" they won their first title, the Iveragh Junior Championship, by defeating Waterville on a score 1-4 to 1-1.

Rufus Babcock

Rufus T. Babcock (September 18, 1798 - May 4, 1875) was an American clergyman and the second president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Samuel Francis Smith

His ordination as a Baptist minister was on February 12, 1834, in Waterville, Maine, where in addition to his ministry, he served as Professor of Modern Languages at Waterville College.

Seal of Colby College

The Seal of Colby College is the official insignia of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority

The buses have routes in Toledo and its suburbs, including Maumee, Ottawa Hills, Rossford, Sylvania, Sylvania Township, and Waterville.

Top Quality Wrestling

Top Quality Wrestling is a New England independent professional wrestling promotion based in Waterville, Maine.

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School was built shortly after the formation of the Valley Heights Public School District in 1966, which serves the communities of Blue Rapids and Waterville, Kansas.

Waterville Village Historic District

, Griffin Rd., Fox Hill Rd., Beals Hill Rd., Lapland Road in Waterville, Vermont.

, Griffin Rd., Fox Hill Rd., Beals Hill Rd., Lapland Rd., Waterville, Vermont

Waterville, Minnesota

Artist Adolf Dehn was born in Waterville, Minnesota, November 22, 1895 and he died in New York City, May 19, 1968.

Waterville, New York

Hops (humulus lupulus) were introduced to the area in about 1820; by 1875, Waterville was considered the "Hops Capital of the World."

Waterville, Vermont

The 20th-century American oil painter Emile Gruppe painted Waterville on several canvases from a variety of visual points of view, almost always including the church, the Lamoille River, and the Church St. covered bridge.


Anthony Wayne Local School District

The school district serves students who live in the cities of Whitehouse, Waterville, and Monclova Twp.; also it serves students in parts of Swanton, Middleton, and Providence Twp. in Lucas County.

Cleveland Cram

Cleveland C. Cram (December 21, 1917, Waterville, Minnesota - January 9, 1999) was a station chief and historian for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia

The village commission was originally established in 1947 as the WCG Commission and was responsible for fire protection, recreation and sidewalks in Waterville, Cambridge, and Grafton.

Dan Gwadosky

He earned a B.S. in Management and a M.A. in Computer Technology from Thomas College in Waterville.

George Washington Morse

In 1858, Washington Morse along with D. B. Parsons and J.H. Abbott was commissioned by the government of Minnesota to establish a State road from Waterville to Owatonna.

Gerry Boyle

He began as a reporter at the Rumford Falls Times, a weekly in Rumford, a Maine paper-mill town, then moved to the Morning Sentinel, a daily in Waterville, Maine, his old college town, going on to become a full-time columnist on the paper.

Industrial Estates Limited

Michelin of France, which eventually built three tire manufacturing plants in Granton, followed by Bridgewater and Waterville.

John Stoughton Newberry

Newberry was born in Waterville, New York and moved with his parents to Michigan when a child, residing successively in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Romeo.

Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah

He wrote People in Bondage, which was published in the USA by Lerner Publishing Group, and Slavery: A Brief Survey, which was published in Ghana by Waterville.

Surface Combustion

In addition to the headquarters, Surface Combustion also maintains a manufacturing and warehouse facility in another nearby Toledo suburb, Waterville.

Thorpe Waterville Castle

Thorpe Waterville Castle was a medieval fortified manor house near Thorpe Waterville, Northamptonshire, England.

Universalist-Unitarian Church

Universalist-Unitarian Church is a historic church on Silver Street and Elm Street in Waterville, Maine.

Waterville Valley BBTS

The Waterville Valley BBTS Ski Educational Foundation is a ski and snowboard club based out of Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, United States.

Withrow, Washington

It lies on the terminal moraine for the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which flowed southward through the Okanogan trough from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia blocking the course of the Columbia River and ending on the elevations of the Waterville Plateau.

WMPX

WPFO Fox 23 in Waterville/Portland, Maine, formerly used WMPX-TV call sign from 1999 to 2002