Founded in 1791, Berwick Academy is an independent coeducational country day school, grades K-12, serving over 580 students from the Seacoast area of southern Maine and New Hampshire. It is today Maine's oldest school. Among its students have been authors Sarah Orne Jewett and Gladys Hasty Carroll, artist Marcia Oakes Woodbury, Congressman John Holmes Burleigh, and Arizona Governor John Noble Goodwin.
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Among the founders were Col. Jonathan Hamilton, Rev. John Tompson and Gen. Ichabod Goodwin. The earliest schoolhouse of the academy, the 1791 House now used as the office of admissions, was constructed on land donated in 1791 by Judge Benjamin Chadbournes.
1791 House – Not to be reproduced without permission of Berwick Academy
Below is an adaptation of a map of 1877, the decade after Sarah Orne Jewett was a Berwick Academy student.
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Old Town of Berwick
Hayes House
A Founder of Berwick Academy in 1791
William H. Fogg
Old Berwick Historical Society Homepage