Auburn, Maine, developed along the Androscoggin River, where the western side between the Great Falls and the Little Androscoggin was originally settled by the Anasagunticook tribe. In 1684, Chief Warumbee sold land to Richard Wharton, and after Wharton's death the land passed to the Pejepscot Proprietors. After decades of legal battles over land rights, the claim was incorporated in 1802 as the Town of Danville. In 1842, the eastern section of the Town of Minot became the Town of Auburn, taking its name from Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village." When Androscoggin County was established in 1854, voters chose Auburn rather than Lewiston or Danville as the county seat. Auburn then absorbed the portion of Danville north of the Little Androscoggin five years later, and in 1867 the state legislature annexed the remaining area of Danville to Auburn. Auburn was incorporated as a city in 1869 and elected Thomas Littlefield as its first mayor, and in 1917 it became the first city in Maine to adopt the council-manager form of government. Beginning in 1835, shoe manufacturing became Auburn's largest industry, with output of shoes and boots roughly doubling during the Civil War and rising tenfold over the following three decades as mechanization expanded production to about 6,000,000 pairs per year. A labor strike in 1937 caused some companies to fail, and later foreign imports largely ended Auburn's reign as the "shoe capital of the world." Today Auburn's leading employment sectors are healthcare, retail trade, education, and manufacturing, and its large geographic area includes shopping centers, car dealerships, industrial parks, an airport, an intermodal transportation center, and twenty sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.