Winslow
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Winslow has approximately 8,200 residents and provides excellent commercial, industrial, and residential opportunities. A stable, council-manager type of government has operated under a Town Charter since 1969. Winslow has successfully maintained one of the more attrractive property tax rates in the area and can boast an excellent educational system, outstanding athletic programs, and some of the finer recreational facilities in the state. Winslow is a warm, friendly, progressive community and an excellent place to call home. |
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Located
on the east bank of the Kennebec River across the bridge from Waterville,
Winslow is a town rich in hsitory and pride. Settlers arrived here in
the early 1700s and built their homes around the protective Fort Halifax
on the confluence of the Sebasticook and Kennebec Rivers which provided
a major route to transport food, goods, and more settlers. The Winslow
Fort Halifax Blockhouse, formerly the nation's oldest wooden structrure
of its type, was freshly rebuilt after the original was swept down the
Kennebec River by raging flood waters on April 1, 1987. 
