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The City is named for Benjamin Hallowell, a Boston merchant and one of the Kennebec Proprietors, holders of land originally granted to the Plymouth Company by the Btitish monarchy in the 1620s. First to settle here was Deacon Pease Clark, who emigrated with his wife and son Peter from Attleborough, MassachusettsAttleborough, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1762. Legend has it that after disembarking on the west side of the Kennebec RiverKennebec, near present-day Water Street, the Clarks took shelter in their overturned cart. On a riverfront lot measuring 50 rods (about 275 yards), the Clark family raised corn, rye and other crops. The land on which the fire department now stands was the first to be cleared. In 1797, the modern city of Augusta, MaineAugusta split from Hallowell to be a separate town. The part of Hallowell that is the current city was then known as "The Hook".
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