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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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Webmaster:
Herbert W. Geiler

Last Updated:
6/12/2007

History

Topics related to South Berwick and surrounding communities

Tour of South Berwick Village!

Upper Landing & Mill Lower Landing & Shipbuilding
Portsmouth Manufacturing Company South Berwick Maritime History
Quamphegan Landing List of Ships built in South Berwick & Rollinsford
"The Landing Mill and its Time" by Annie Wentworth Baer "The Launch of the Berwick" by John Marr
Captain Gooch Cheney Captain Hypie Philpot
"The Gray Mills of Farley" by Sarah Orne Jewett  
"The Packet Boat " by Sarah Orne Jewett Places
  Great Works
People "The Cushing Mansion by Charles C. Hobbs
John Noble Goodwin Old Fields Road History: "Quamphegan Park" by Annie Wentworth Baer
William H Fogg Worster Brook
Miss Raynes' School South Berwick Historic Cemeteries
Will of Micajah Currier, Esquire The Powder House
Tilly Higgins, 1771 Tax Valuation  
Ichabod and John W Goodwin Maps
Jonathan Hamilton 1805 Portland, Main and Liberty Streets
William Allen Hayes Family NEW c. 1835 South Berwick Village NEW
Rev. John Tompson NEW 1856 South Berwick and Surrounding Towns
Judge Benjamin Chadbourne 1856 South Berwick Village
GeorgeH Muzzey NEW 1872 Berwick -- from the Atlas of York County , 1872
Archibald MacPhaedris NEW 1872 South Berwick Village -- Excerpt from the Atlas of York County, 1872
Revolutionary Soldiers from Berwick NEW 1872 South Berwick School Districts -- from the Atlas of York County , 1872
Soldiers at Seige of Louisburg, 1757 NEW 1884 South BerwickVillage

1872 Great Works Map-- from the Atlas of York County , 1872 NEW
Events  
South Berwick's Temperance Controversy and Crime Wave, 1845-55 Town Histories
South Berwick Recreation "Early History of Great Works" – by Miss Margaret Foote NEW
A South Berwick Yankee Behind Confederate Lines 1790 Description of the Town and Village by Judge Benjamin Chadbourne
Some South Berwick Events from Newspapers of the 1840s -1860s "The First permanent Settlement in Maine" by Everett S. Stackpole
"Fire of 1870" "Old Town of Berwick" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"The Scottish Prisoners of 1650" 1832 History of York County and Portsmouth
South Berwick's History of Firefighting South Berwick Time Line
Hurricane Carol "Berwick" by William Lord
Lafayette's Visit to South Berwick Eliot Time Line
   
Works of Sarah Orne Jewett Central School Hikes Through History
"Old Town of Berwick"
"The Packet Boat"  
"The Gray Mills of Farley"