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Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan native, was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, in 1949.

The annual Skowhegan State Fair is held in August.

The song "Where the Roses Twine and Trellis by the Door" was written by Harry Augustus Dinsmore, of Skowhegan.

Stephen Evans Merrill, of Skowhegan and Brunswick, recorded Father Fell Down the Well and Other Maine Stories.

U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan native, wore a fresh red rose each day in the Senate.

Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan native, was the first woman ever to have her name placed in nomination for U.S. president by a major polital party, in 1964 (she lost the Republican nomination to Sen. Barry Goldwater).

The Native-American monument in Skowhegan, sculpted by Bernard Lanlais, is sixty feet tall.

The Maine art school Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture has a nationally renowned summer program.

Skowhegan sculptor Barry Norling created an eight-foot-high metal grasshopper to hold his mailbox on Beech Hill Road.

Realist painter Alex Katz first come to Maine in 1949, as a student at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

The oldest continuously operating fair in North America is the Skowhegan Fair, which began in 1818.

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