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Columbia Falls (Maine)
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Columbia Falls is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 476 at the 2020 census.
It derives its name from the Class I-III Rapids on the Pleasant River (Pleasant Bay) that flow through the town. Columbia Falls and its Washington County neighbor Columbia, Maine were once the same town. However in 1863 Columbia Falls formed its own town.
In 2023 the community gained national attention after a proposal to build the world's tallest flagpole (1,461 feet (445 meters) high -- taller than the Empire State Building) in a $1 billion project that includes a 4,000 seat auditorium in dubbed the Flagpole of Freedom Park. The project has been proposed by local Morrill Worcester whose company Worcester Wreath Co. which expanded to Wreaths Across America and donates more than 1 million wreaths to military cemeteries and gravesites around the world.
The town began as Township 13 SD, BPP, which was joined together with Township 12 by the Massachusetts General Court on February 8, 1796 and incorporated as Columbia. It was settled soon after the Revolutionary War. On March 25, 1863, the town was set off from Columbia and incorporated as Columbia Falls.
Lumbering and shipbuilding brought the town prosperity and endowed it with some fine early architecture. This includes the Ruggles House (1818–1820), an exquisite Federal home that is now a museum, and the Union Church (1849), a Greek Revival meeting house which since 1902 has housed the town hall, library and archives. The Washington County Railroad arrived at Columbia Falls in 1898. Tourism and harvesting blueberries are important industries today, together with producing Christmas trees and wreaths.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Columbia Falls is drained by the Pleasant River.
The town is crossed by U.S. Route 1 and Maine State Route 187.
As of the census of 2010, there were 560 people, 257 households, and 157 families living in the town. The population density was .
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