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Skowhegan

A town of 8,653 people in Somerset County, Maine
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Town in Maine, United States
1771Established
8,620Population
60.5 sq miArea
223 ftElevation

Skowhegan () is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 8,620. It contains the census-designated place of the same name. Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously held state fair in the United States. Skowhegan was originally inhabited by the indigenous Abenaki people who named the area Skowhegan, meaning "watching place [for fish]," and were mostly dispersed by the end of the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War.

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ZIP code04976
Area code207
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