(Photo
by Norma Keim) Click here to enlarge.
The location of Ambrose Gibbons’
“great house” is not known. Jewett says the early settlers planted
grape vines along the north bank of the Great Works River, shown at right
(Leigh’s Mill Pond). The road bordering the pond is still called Vine
Street today. This mid-1990s photo looks northward along the Salmon Falls
River, left, toward present-day South Berwick village. (Rollinsford, New
Hampshire, borders the west bank of the Salmon Falls River.) A generation
after Ambrose Gibbons’ time, Humphrey Chadbourne operated a mill at
the falls near where the Great Works empties into the Salmon Falls. Chadbourne’s
house site is in the field overlooking the falls near the center of the
photo.
Chadbourne Archaeology Project
Old Town of Berwick
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