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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

Links to other sites of interest

1. Rochester, NH History - If you are interested in Rochester's History and Heritage... If you are intrigued by Strafford County's past... If you are a writer or collector of regional history... If you are tracing your family history... If you love the old buildings that you see around you and wonder what life was like for the people who lived in them... If you'd like to meet other people who are interested in local history... Visit the Rochester History web site

2. Shapleigh Family Association - All descendants of Humphrey Chadbourne of Berwick, Maine, have Shapleigh ancestry from their mother Lucy Treworgye, daughter of James and Katherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye. Her father was merchant verturer Alexander Shapleigh.

3. Chadbourne Family Association - All descendants of William Chadbourne of Berwick, Maine, father of Humphrey Chadbourne of which the Chadbourne dig is associated with. This site lists the complete first six generations of Chadbournes in America.

4. Sarah Orne Jewett text Project - Dr Terry Heller is a national authority on Jewett and professor of English at Coe College. Dr Heller is creator of the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project web site that has published on the Internet all of jewett's works and hundreds of notes and related documents, offering them to readers and scholars

5. The Seacoast - Webmaster, Dennis Robinson has done an excellent job of listing most of the historic societies, building, museums, monuments and cemeteries in the seacoast area.

6. Grave Matters - Webmaster, Jenn Marcelais has prepared a listing of gravesites and photos. Two sites are in South Berwick.

7. Gundalow Company - The Captain Edward H. Adams, a reproduction of the 1886 launched gundalow Fanny M., has become a symbol of the Piscataqua region, its history and its people.

8. SoBo Books - Learn more about the history of South Berwick in the "History" section of theis website.

9. Bringing the Paul Wentworth House Home - This site tells the story of the return of the Col. Paul Wentworth House (c. 1701) to its original home. Originally built in Rollinsford, New Hampshire it was removed from town in 1936 and rebuilt in Dover, Massachusetts and has been missing from the town’s landscape for almost 70 years.
House owner, Ken Rendell, generously donated the house to the town in 2002. During the months of September and October of 2002, historic building specialist, Stephen Bedard, worked with his crew in Dover, MA, to dismantle the Wentworth house and return it to its native soil in Rollinsford. Steve was hired by the historical committee to take the dwelling apart, piece by piece, and transport it back to NH, where it remains in storage awaiting reconstruction on its original lot.

10. Maritime Maine Heritage Trail - Learn more about Maine's Maritime History.

11. Maine Historical Societies - Learn more about Maine's Historical Societies and/or Genealogical Societies.

12. Maine Old Cemetery Association - M.O.C.A, The Maine Old Cemetery Association, was founded in 1969 for the main purposes of locating old cemeteries in the state of Maine, encouraging the care and preservation of those cemeteries, and the gathering and preservation of historical information regarding these cemeteries. M.O.C.A is a non-profit Maine corporation and is tax exempt under the provisions of Section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

13. Salmon Falls Woodworks, Inc. is a design-build company specializing in the restoration and renovation of homes dating from the early 1700's to the mid 1900's.

14. York Chamber of Commerce - Check out what the York Chamber of Commerce has to say about Maine

15. Woodman Institute Museum - Check out what the new Woodman Institute website offers

16. The Little Hat Company was born in June of 2006 out of the necessity for a practical yet beautiful hat to protect my baby's noggin. Growing up in a traditional “Yankee” family, it was always important to make sure that little ones were guarded from the sun and the cold. Since that first summer, The Little Hat Company has shipped to five continents and across the United States; opened a retail store selling hats, baby gear and toys; launched a website and appeared in numerous articles and magazines. All of our lids are proudly handcrafted in South Berwick, Maine by a group of amazing and talented women.