The slogan of the annual Smelt festival is: " Lewiston never Smelt this good.

* November 7 – The capital of Idaho Territory is moved from Lewiston to Boise ; North Idaho declares the move illegal and proposes secession.

* March 16 – Bates College is founded by abolitionists in Lewiston, Maine.

Lewiston is a city in and also the county seat of Nez Perce County in the state of Idaho.

Lewiston is the principal city of the Lewiston, ID-Clarkston, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Nez Perce County and Asotin County, Washington.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, thirty miles ( 48 km ) northwest of the Lower Granite Dam.

Because of dams ( and their locks ) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels.

Lewiston is home to Lewis-Clark State College, a public undergraduate college.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers.

Immediately west of Lewiston is the smaller twin city of Clarkston, Washington.

Because of these dams ( and their locks ), Lewiston is navigable by some ocean-going vessels.

Downtown Lewiston, at 756 feet, is only slightly higher in elevation than the river, about.

The lowest point in the state of Idaho is located on the Snake River in Lewiston, where it flows out of Idaho and into Washington.

Lewiston is home to Lewis-Clark State College.

Lewiston High School is a 5A school in Idaho, which is the largest ( 1A being the lowest ).

The Lewiston School District is Independent School District # 1.

The Lewiston Round Up is a member of the Big 4 or Big Money 4 ( along with Pendleton Round-up, Walla Walla Fair and Rodeo and Ellensburg Rodeo ) and a top 50 PRCA rodeo.

Up to of water a second is diverted from the Niagara River through conduits under the City of Niagara Falls to the Lewiston and Robert Moses power plants.

When electricity demand is low, the Lewiston units can operate as pumps to transport water from the lower bay back up to the plant's reservoir, allowing this water to be used again during the daytime when electricity use peaks.

Niagara University is located in Lewiston, New York.

The county seat is Lewiston.

Nez Perce County is part of the Lewiston, ID-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entire county and all of Asotin County, Washington.

The lowest point in the state of Idaho is located on the Snake River in Lewiston in Nez Perce County, where it flows out of Idaho and into Washington.

* Lewiston is home to California's third largest reservoir the

Now, downtown Lisbon Street offers the office of Lewiston Auburn Magazine, Captive Elements Art House, Kimball Street Gallery, Forage Market, The Vault, Gallery 5, Marche, Niky's and is home to both the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival and the last Friday of the month Art Walks.

The unincorporated community of Johannesburg is the home of the Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools, which also includes the unincorporated Census Designated Place of Lewiston in Montmorency County.

Geographic names that honor him include Lewis County, Idaho, Lewis County, Kentucky ; Lewis County, Tennessee ; Lewisburg, Tennessee ; Lewiston, Idaho ; Lewis County, Washington ; the U. S. Army fort Fort Lewis, Washington, the home of the US Army 1st Corps ( I Corps ), and especially Lewis and Clark County, Montana, the home of the capital city, Helena ; Lewis and Clark Pass ( Montana ); Lewistown, Montana ; the Lewis Range of Montana's Glacier National Park ; Lewis Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona ; Lewis Avenue in Billings, Montana.

Lewiston is also home to the New York Power Authority's Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant.

Sal's mother has recently left Sal because it was to much work and her father, and Sal's Gram and Gramps are taking her on a cross-country car trip to Lewiston, Idaho to see her mother in time for her birthday, hoping to bring her home with her.

In response to his mother's bouts with cancer, Dempsey helped start the Patrick Dempsey Center at Central Maine Medical Center in his home town of Lewiston, Maine.

Other prominent Little Canadas were found in Lowell, Massachusetts, the home of novelist Jack Kerouac, and Lewiston, Maine.

The primary cities in this region are Lewiston and Moscow, home of the University of Idaho.

Their home opener was September 23 versus the Lewiston Maineiacs, played in front of a sold-out crowd of 6, 247.

Toward the end of her years she suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died on January 14, 2005, in a Lewiston, Maine nursing home.

Other important cities include Lewiston, Moscow ( home of the University of Idaho ), Post Falls, Hayden, Sandpoint, and the smaller towns of St. Maries and Bonners Ferry.

It was home to the now-defunct Lewiston Maineiacs ice hockey team.

It was home to the Sherbrooke Castors ice hockey team, before their move to Lewiston, Maine as the Lewiston Maineiacs in 2003 and the Sherbrooke Canadiens before they became the Fredericton Canadiens in 1990.

Image: Full_Image_Sunset_Bates College_Lewiston_Maine_July_3_2008_8. 30PM. JPG | Sunset over the Bates College track in Lewiston, Maine.

from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

On the lecture circuit, he spoke at many colleges around the country during the Reconstruction era, including Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1873.

Bates College is located in the Androscoggin County city of Lewiston.

Later reorganized as the Lewiston Water Power Company, the sales of stock attracted Boston investors — including Thomas J. Hill, Lyman Nichols, George L. Ward, Alexander De Witt, and Benjamin E. Bates ( namesake of the Bates Mill and Bates College ) – who financed a canal system and several textile mills on the Androscoggin River.

The Bates Mill remained the largest employer in Lewiston from the 1850s to the mid-late 20th century.

In 1855, The Maine State Seminary in Lewiston, now Bates College, was incorporated.

In January 2003, a small white supremacist group from Illinois demonstrated in Lewiston in support of what they believed the mayor meant, prompting a simultaneous counter-demonstration at Bates College and the organization of the " Many and One Coalition ".

* Ebenezer Knowlton, congressman from Maine, Free Will Baptist minister, and co-founder of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine

Muskie attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he majored in history and government.

Muskie's papers are kept at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

" " Ciardi began his higher studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, but transferred to Tufts University in Boston, where he studied under the poet John Holmes.

* Bates Mill Building Number 5, 1914, in Lewiston, Maine

in political science from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1974.

WRBC is the college radio station of Bates College, located in Lewiston, Maine and at 91. 5 MHz on the FM dial.

" Bates On The Air ", a weekly program produced by his Radio Class from studios in Chase Hall, debuted in 1945 on WCOU in Lewiston.

Its roots go back to the original LPMud, Genesis LPMud, when Forlock of Genesis along with some students at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine founded Orlith in 1991.

* The Winter Carnival at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine

* Loring Danforth, anthropology professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine

Frye played a role in founding Bates College in Lewiston and served as a longtime trustee of the College.

The Sen. William P. Frye House near Bates College in Lewiston is on the National Historic Register.