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Old Berwick Historical Society
Counting House Museum
PO Box 296
South Berwick, ME 03908
(207) 384-0000

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Done by Volunteers

Webmaster:
Herbert W. Geiler

Last Updated:
6/12/2007

Counting House History:

Quamphegan Landing

In 1805 the bridge over the falls, today’s Route 4 linking Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine, was part of the Dover Turnpike. This was the highway stage coach travelers used to reach Portland, Maine, from Boston.

The falls where the Counting House is located is the site of historic Quamphegan Landing, a tidewater port on the Salmon Falls River dating back even before the cotton mill. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, before the advent of railroads, Quamphegan Landing was gateway to the Piscataqua, Portsmouth and the world.

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