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Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, on the west bank of the Kennebec River, with a population of 15,828 at the 2020 census and 6,748 households.

Waterville was founded from the western parts of Winslow and incorporated as a town on June 23, 1802, and it was incorporated as a city on January 12, 1888.

Waterville is a college town, home to Colby College, founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution and renamed Colby College in 1867, and to Thomas College, established in 1894.

Ticonic Falls on the Kennebec River blocked navigation farther upriver, so Waterville developed as the terminus for trade and shipping on the river.

The Lockwood Manufacturing Company, a cotton textile plant built after the Ticonic Water Power and Manufacturing Company dammed the Kennebec in 1866, employed 1,300 workers by 1900 and dominated the riverfront until the mid-1950s.

The iron Waterville-Winslow Footbridge opened in 1901 and was rebuilt in 1903 as the Two Cent Bridge after the original was carried away by the highest river level since 1832.

Waterville's Beaux-Arts City Hall and Opera House, designed by George Gilman Adams, was dedicated in 1902.

The Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad reached Waterville in 1849, and the Maine Central Railroad established locomotive and car repair shops in the mill town in 1870.

The C.F. Hathaway Company, one of the last factories in the United States producing high-end dress shirts, operated in Waterville for over 160 years before closing in 2002.

Waterville is nicknamed the Elm City and is one of the two principal cities of the Augusta-Waterville micropolitan statistical area, along with Augusta.