For a break from the beach, head less than a mile inland to Waterville USA. The park, which spans 20 acres, offers both water and theme park rides. Visitors can float their way down the lazy river ...

A framed photo, taken around 1920, hangs on the dining-room wall at Mezza, a black-and-white image showing a row of houses pressed up tightly against the Kennebec River, in Waterville’s Head of Falls ...

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