Augusta, ME Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The capital of Maine since 1832, AUGUSTA is much quieter and less visited now than it was a hundred years ago. The lumber industry here really took off after the technique of making paper from wood was rediscovered in 1844, and Augusta also had a lucrative sideline – each winter hundreds of thousands of tons of ice , cut from the Kennebec River, were shipped out, as far south as the Caribbean, in a trade now all but forgotten by history. There are informative displays on Maine's landscape and industrial past at the lively Maine State Museum , a short way south of the capitol on State Street (Mon–Fri … more »