SUN JOURNAL • July 24, 2022
Delving into the two million-page digital archive of the Sun Journal, which stretches back for generations, it’s possible to say definitively that at least 129 people have drowned in the river in Maine alone since one of the first settlers of Lewiston Falls perished in its waters shortly before delegates in Philadelphia issued the Declaration of Independence. Nine out of 10 known victims were male, often boys, and about half of those killed in the river were 18 or younger.