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Oakland is a town in Kennebec County in the U.S. state of Maine. The population was 6,230 at the 2020 census. [2] Oakland is 4 miles (6 km) west of Waterville and approximately 18 miles (29 km) north of Augusta, the state capital. Waterville and Augusta are service centers for Oakland, and many Oakland residents commute to jobs in those areas.
Oakland is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main population center in the town of Oakland in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,602 at the 2010 census , [ 2 ] out of 6,240 in the entire town of Oakland.
The Oakland Public Library, serving the town of Oakland, Maine, is located at 18 Church Street, in an architecturally distinguished building designed by Harry S. Coombs in Classical Revival style and built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
In March of this year, the town’s Department of Public Works, with a consultant, conducted a cost analysis and learned that it would cost an estimated $234,000 annually to keep the transfer ...
Somerset Railroad was chartered in 1860 to build north along the Kennebec River from the Maine Central Railroad "back road" at Oakland, Maine. The line originally shared the Maine Central Portland gauge of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm). Construction reached Norridgewock in 1873, Madison in 1875, and North Anson in 1877.
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In 2003, the Legislature directed the State to acquire the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town, Maine. [4] The landfill had been originally permitted for the disposal of pulp and paper-making wastes from Georgia-Pacific's West Old Town paper mill, as well as to burn pile ash from the City of Old Town transfer station. Following its acquisition ...
1888 Portland Union Station opened. 1890 Maine Central leased the Quebec Division. 1891 Maine Central leased the Rockland Branch. 1904 Maine Central gained majority stock control of the Calais Branch. 1907 Maine Central leased the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway as the Livermore Falls branch and Rangeley branch. 1907 Bangor Union Station opened.