Placenames of South Berwick
“You won't find a more historic walkable village in New England than South Berwick. Now you can find everything when you get there with this much-needed, carefully researched guide.”
– J. Dennis Robinson, SeacoastNH.comNow available for $18 at South Berwick Pharmacy, Abby Chic Florist, Spring Hill Restaurant, the Counting House Museum, and Old Berwick Historical Society events in South Berwick; Baldface Books in Dover, NH, and RiverRun Books in Portsmouth, NH.
To order by mail, please send a check for $25 made out to the Old Berwick Historical Society to: Old Berwick Historical Society, PO Box 296, South Berwick , ME 03908.
Join the Old Berwick Historical Society for a stroll along South Berwick's village streets and country
roads. From the Point to Tatnic, from Dunnybrook to Agamenticus Estates, along Witchtrot and down Oldfields Roads, each page is loaded with facts, stories, and picturesque descriptions by local authors Sarah Orne Jewett and Gladys Hasty Carroll.
The archives of the Counting House Museum provide hundreds of maps, photos, drawings and anecdotes, detailing:
old railroad stations and trolley stops
one room schoolhouses
Civil War soldiers
historic farms
landmark trees, plants and wildlife
country and village churches
Native Americans
cemeteries and burial plots
immigrants and factory workers
gundalow landings
water powered mills
South Berwick's tall ships
veterans – from the Revolution to Vietnam
and much, much morePublished by Back Channel Press
ISBN-978-1-934582-03-9Check out your street, the roads you drive to work and
your favorite spots in town-- and find out what happened there!Financial support from
The South Berwick Strawberry Festival Committee and
Julia's Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation – Piscataqua RegionOld Berwick Historical Society Homepage