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Bowling, billiards, and movies were the entertainment offered at the Acme Pavilion in Winthrop in 1912.

Hiram and John Pitts, of Winthrop, invented the first steam-powered threshing machine.

Ezekiel J. Bailey, of Winthrop, build the nation's first oilcloth factory in 1845.

Del Bissonette, of Winthrop, was known as "the Babe Ruth of Maine."

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