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If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 689-2896 and leave a voicemail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be put into a drawing for a $25 gift card courtesy of Hannaford Supermarkets.

Mystery Photo for Aug. 17, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Mystery Photo for Aug. 10, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

We had many people mistake this large clock mechanism for others around the state, predominantly, the one at Lewiston City Hall. However, the majority of entrants correctly identified the 1856 Howard and Davis Model 2 clock in the clock tower of the Androscoggin County Building at 2 Turner St. in Auburn. The clock has been hand cranked for the past 156 years. The crank has been retrofitted, however, with a modified hand drill to wind the clock faster and more efficiently. In a random drawing from all the correct entries, Darren Cote of Livermore was picked as the winner of a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card. He told us he recognized it from doing work in the tower on several occasions.

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

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