Auburn, Maine, developed along the Androscoggin River on land originally settled by the Anasagunticook tribe between the Great Falls and the Little Androscoggin. In 1684, Chief Warumbee sold land to Richard Wharton, and after Wharton's death it 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, its name inspired by 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 absorbed part of Danville in 1859, annexed the rest in 1867, became a city in 1869, and elected Thomas Littlefield as its first mayor. In 1917, it became the first city in Maine to adopt the council-manager form of government. Beginning in 1835, shoe manufacturing grew into Auburn's largest industry, roughly doubled during the Civil War, and over the next three decades increased tenfold through mechanization 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 its leading employment sectors are healthcare, retail trade, education, and manufacturing, and the city includes shopping centers, car dealerships, industrial parks, an airport, an intermodal transportation center, twenty sites on the National Register of Historic Places, and a population of about 23,000.