Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lewiston, ME

Lewiston is a city in Androscoggin County, Maine, and with 37,121 residents at the 2020 census it is the second-most populous city in Maine.

The city lies on the Androscoggin River halfway between Augusta, the state capital, and Portland, the state's largest city, and forms half of the Lewiston-Auburn metropolitan area.

Lewiston was first settled in 1760, incorporated as the town of Lewistown in 1795, and incorporated as a city in 1863.

The city industrialized around the water power of Lewiston Falls on the Androscoggin River, where Benjamin Bates built the Bates Mill, which was Maine's largest employer for three decades.

French Canadian millworkers settled a downtown neighborhood known as Little Canada, and Lewiston has the largest French-speaking population in the United States by population.

Bates College was founded in the city in 1855 as the Maine State Seminary, the first coeducational college in New England.

The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, built between 1905 and 1938, is the only basilica in Maine and the largest Roman Catholic church in the state.

In May 1965 Lewiston hosted the heavyweight title rematch between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston at the Androscoggin Bank Colisée.

The 2020 census counted 15,285 households in Lewiston, and the city's median age was 37.9 years.

Lewiston covers 35.53 square miles, of which 34.15 square miles is land, and its ZIP codes are 04240, 04241, and 04243.