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  • Old Berwick Historical Society
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  • Village Tour
    • Village overview 1: An Historical Overview of South Berwick Village
    • Village overview 2: "The Plain"
    • Village overview 3: The Turnpike
    • Village overview 4: “The Corner”
    • Village overview 5: The Village and Central Square
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Quamphegan Landing
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: The Point
    • The Cushing House by Charles C. Hobbs
    • A History of Oldfields Road and Vicinity by Annie Wentworth Baer
    • Worster's River
    • The Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
    • Jewett Brochure - Sarah Orne Jewett in South Berwick
    • Where did the name of South Berwick’s Witchtrot Road come from?
    • The Grace Darling and Newichawannock Hall
    • Porter Pines, Quamphegan Park and the Trolleys
    • Jewett Brochure 1. Sarah Orne Jewett House, 5 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 2. Jewett-Eastman House, 37 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 3. Jewett Gardens, Main and Portland Streets
    • Jewett Brochure 4. Raynes House, 96 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 5. Thomas Jewett House, 151 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 6. Senator Elisha and Sally Jewett House, 176 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 7. Portland Street Cemetery, Agamenticus Road
    • Jewett Brochure 8. Odd Fellows Block, Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 9. Old Jewett Store, 10 Portland Street
    • Jewett Brochure 10. Business Block, Main Street
    • Jewett Brochure 11. Cushing House, site of Central School, Main Street
    • Jewett Brochure 12. Hon. John B. Nealley House, 169 Main Street
    • Jewett Brochure 13. First Parish Federated Church, Main and Academy Streets
    • Jewett Brochure 14. 1791 House, Berwick Academy, Academy Street
    • Jewett Brochure 15. Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy
    • Jewett Brochure 16. Counting House Museum, Corner of Route 4 and Liberty Street
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Central Square
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Monument Area
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Town Hall Area
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Academy Street
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Quamphegan Hotel Area
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: The Plain
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Freewill Baptist - Cummings Area
    • Tour South Berwick Village section intro: Happy Valley
    • Jewett Brochure 17. Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Lane
    • Deep-water Anchorages near the Head of Tide, Salmon Falls River, 1600s and 1700s
    • The Landing Wharves
    • The Powderhouse, from Berwick, Maine, Town Records
    • Berwick Academy
    • Jewett Brochure 12a. Capt. Samuel W. Rice House, 151 Main Street
    • Old Fields Road South Tour
    • Old Fields Road North Tour
    • Great Works River Tour
    • Route 236 Tour
    • Quamphegan Falls Tour
    • Wooster Brook Tour - incomplete
    • Sullivan Sites in Berwick, Maine
    • South Berwick Historic Schoolhouse Search
      • Freewill Baptist Cemetery
      • Portland Street Cemetery
      • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
      • Woodlawn Cemetery
      • Old Fields Burying Ground (Vine Street Cemetery)
  • Cemetery Database
    • 1805 Map of Portland, Main and Liberty Streets, South Berwick
    • 1835 Map of South Berwick
    • 1856 Map of South Berwick and Surrounding Towns
    • 1856 Map of South Berwick Village
    • 1872 Map of Berwick
    • 1872 Map of Great Works
    • 1872 Map of South Berwick Village
    • 1872 Map of South Berwick Showing School Districts
    • 1884 Map of South Berwick Village
    • Berwick Begins: 1631-1713
    • The Scottish Prisoners of 1650
    • Following the trail of the 1650 Scottish Prisoners
    • Attack of 1689/90 by William Vaughan and Richard Martyn
    • A Bicentennial History of South Berwick
    • 1819 South Berwick Statehood Vote and Slavery
    • Lafayette's visit to South Berwick by Sophia Elizabeth Hayes and the Eastern Argus
    • A South Berwick Yankee Behind Confederate Lines (Part I) by George Washington Frosst
    • A South Berwick Yankee Behind Confederate Lines (Part II) by George Washington Frosst
    • Some South Berwick Events from Newspapers of the 1840s-1860s
    • South Berwick and Berwick Academy at Gettysburg
    • Temperance Controversy and Crime Wave, 1845-55
    • The Fire of 1870 by Rebecca Young
    • Eliot Time Line
    • South Berwick Time Line
    • Hurricane Carol, 1954, South Berwick Chronicle
      • Thomas Butler (b. 1674)
      • Thomas Abbott (1643-1713)
      • Humphrey Chadbourne (1615-1667), Pioneer of Old Berwick
      • South Berwick's First People
      • Humphrey Spencer (c. 1674 – 1712)
      • William Spencer (c. 1631-1696)
      • Some Old Families of Shorey’s Brook
      • Sagamore Rowls
      • Humphrey Chadbourne and the Atlantic World
      • Patience Spencer and Kinship
      • Nicholas Shapleigh and Allegiance
      • William Black and Diversity
      • Thomas Holmes and Adversity
      • Jean-Baptiste Hertel and Contest
      • Mehitable Goodwin and Resilience
      • Judge Benjamin Chadbourne (1718-1799)
      • Berwick Soldiers at Siege of Louisbourg by Nathan Gould
      • Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant
      • Dr. Nathanael Low (1740-1808), physician and almanac publisher
      • Northend Cogswell (1762-1828), merchant; Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney; William Lambert Cogswell (1803-1879), New York distiller and financier
      • William Lambert (b. 1772), lawyer; Rev. Ebenezer Little Boyd (b. 1768), Baptist minister; and Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
      • Citizen, Merchant, Community Leader: A New Interpretation of Jonathan Hamilton by Margaret Kugelman Hofer
      • Jonathan Hamilton (1745-1802)
      • Dr. Ivory Hovey (1748-1818), physician and merchant
      • The Cushings and the Cushing Mansion
      • Gen. Ichabod Goodwin (1743-1829), militia leader and sheriff by Paula Bennett
      • Master John Sullivan and A Wife’s Apology
      • Black Sara, citizen of Berwick
      • The Furness Family
      • James Sullivan, son of old Berwick, by Daniel Breen
      • Timothy Ferguson (1788-1839), merchant and investor
      • Frost Family
      • Alexander McGeoch (d. 1824)
      • Gen. John Lord (1765-1815), merchant; Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), Joseph Maddox (1847-1916) and Albert Maddox (1873-1954), shopkeepers
      • Early Chadbourne Family
      • Tilly Haggens, a father of South Berwick
      • John Haggens (1742-1822), merchant; Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860), sea captain and merchant; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author
      • Dr. Theodore Herman Jewett (1815-1878), physician; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author; Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1879-1931), physician
      • Olive Branch Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
      • South Berwick Volunteer Fire Fighters
      • Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant; Hannah Brown, shopkeeper
      • Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860) and Thomas Jewett (1789-1864), merchants
      • John Frost (b. 1794), postmaster and store keeper
      • Sarah Bartlett Frost (1776-1848) and Josiah Paul (1813-1892), innkeepers
      • Sarah Norton (c. 1767-1862) , Elisabeth Norton (c. 1775-1848), and Nathaniel Adams (1793-1861), shopkeepers
      • William Allen Tompson (c. 1786-1835), Berwick Academy preceptor; Dr. Caleb Sanborn (1814-1871), physician; and Madison C. (Mattson) Sanborn (1844-1872), soldier
      • Dr. Charles T. Trafton (1822-1888), physician; St, Michael's School; South Berwick Town Hall
      • First Parish Congregational Church and Methodist Episcopal Church
      • Edmund Haggens (1759-1829), West Indies merchant; Isaac Hersom (1825-1911), grain merchant
      • Henry G. Harvey (1832-1888), Civil War veteran, builder
      • Walter Burleigh (d. 1930), textile mill operator, and Charles H. Burleigh (d. 1921), inventor
      • George Campbell Yeaton (1836-1918), Smuttynose murder prosecutor and Sprague murder defense attorney
      • Capt. Isaac P. Fall (1830-1909), Civil War veteran, brick mason
      • Charles Keays (1812-1879), brick mason; George W. Keays (1818-1884)
      • Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace; Marcia Oakes Woodbury (1865-1913), artist
      • William P. Atkinson (c. 1836-1896), physician
      • First Baptist Church
      • Ebenezer S. Hanson (1825-1905) and Nicholas Hanson, Jr. (1831-1904), pharmacists
      • Capt. Samuel W. Rice (1784-1858), sea captain
      • Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon
      • Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney and legislator; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
      • John G. Tompson (b. 1799), bookbinder and retailer
      • Samuel Parks (1784-1865) and Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchants
      • Business Block Entrepreneurs
      • James Scott (c. 1802-1860)
      • St. John Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Masons; and Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
      • John Noble Goodwin (1824-1887), Maine congressman and Arizona governor
      • John Perkins Lord, Esq. (1786-1877), author and lawyer
      • St. Michael Catholic Church
      • William H. Fogg (1817-1884), China trader
      • Will of Micajah Currier, Esquire, of South Berwick
      • Micajah Currier Burleigh (1818 -1881), sea captain, industrialist, NH legislator, from History of Strafford County
      • Ichabod Goodwin (1819-1869) and John W. Goodwin (1825-1911), brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War
      • Dudley Hubbard (1763-1816); Hayes Family: judge, writer, tariff commissioner, Civil War general, editors
      • Rev. John Tompson (1740-1828) and the First Parish Parsonage
      • George H Muzzey (1842-1905), Civil War soldier, cotton factory paymaster - from the Salmon Falls Independent
      • Archibald MacPhaedris' Up-River Investment: A Rollinsford/South Berwick sawmill, from the Warner House Newsletter, fall 2007
      • Revolutionary War Soldiers of Berwick, by W. D. Spencer, 1898
      • Tilley Higgins 1771 Tax Valuation
      • Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
      • Isaac Joy, house joiner
      • Hon. William Burleigh (1785-1827) and John Holmes Burleigh (1822-1877), congressmen
      • Otis E. Moulton (1851-1914), builder
      • Charles E. Hobbs, grocer
      • Timothy Ferguson (c. 1788-1839), merchant and cotton mill founder; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), merchant; and John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
      • Francis Raynes, shoemaker; Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher
      • Henry C. Willard (1842-1920), dry goods retailer
      • Jedediah Jenkins (1767-1852) and Jerusha Parks (1763-1855), farmers
      • John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
      • Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher c. 1875
      • Lewis B. Hanson, blacksmith
      • Mark Libby (1822-1907) bicycle dealer; Mark Addison Libbey (1855-1940), inventor
      • John Samuel Thomas Cushing (1801-1873), manufacturer
      • Capt. Benjamin Franklin Goodwin (1817-1891)
      • Elizabeth W. Tobey (c.1839-1922)
      • Joseph Darville (c. 1855-1936) baker, Ella Tebbetts Darville, and Emily Hill Darville
      • Joshua E. L. Bradeen (1846-1907), machinist, and Lydia Stiles Bradeen (1845-1932)
      • Charles W. Murphy (c. 1834-1899) and Rosetta Durgin Murphy (c. 1833-1922)
      • Thomas Dearborn Jewett (1790-1864), merchant, and Betsey Lord Jewett (1791-1867)
      • Herbert G. Drew (1855-1923), millwright
      • George H. Yeaton (1852-1942), cattle breeder
      • Elisha H. Jewett (c. 1816-1883), state senator; Sarah Orne "Sally" Jewett (1820-1864)
      • Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchant; Samuel Harding (c. 1780-1844), sea captain; Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
      • Joshua Gilpatrick Goodwin (1805-1897), dairy farmer; Israel W. Goodwin (b. 1823), tanner
      • Schoolhouse No. 5
      • Civil War Veterans
      • Robert Hodsdon; John S. Pike (1815 -1888), retail merchant; Abby S. Pike (1814-1896)
      • Samuel Hale and Francis Hale, agents, Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
      • Quamphegan Landing and Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
      • 28 Middle Street
      • Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer
      • Methodist Episcopal Church
      • Eben Nealley (1807-1888), tavern keeper
      • John Plumer (1800-1873), baker and Methodist deacon
      • George Goodwin (1796-1861), mill paymaster; John Henry Plumer (b. 1829-1894), livery stable owner
      • Dr. Charles A. Trafton (c. 1787-1855), physician; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
      • Joseph Hutchings, boat builder
      • Bartholomew Nason (1756-1822), merchant; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), businessman; Elizabeth Plumer Bailey (d. 1897)
      • Charles H. Burleigh, woolen mill foreman, and Sarah Burleigh
      • Charles Wentworth
      • J. Bailey
      • Capt. William Lowell Foote, woolen mill owner
      • House at 349 Main Street
      • H. Harvey
      • M. C. Grant
      • H. Sweat
      • Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon; Walter Flynn, grocer
      • McIntire Shingle Mill
      • Capt. Gooch Cheney (1836-1895), South Berwick Gundalow Man
      • Ira Gilpatric (1802-1878) and Richard Davis (1801-1895), tinsmiths
      • Captain Hypie Philpot, Rollinsford Gundalow Man
      • David Cummings (b. 1827) and William I. “Willie” Cummings (1869-1946), shoe manufacturers
      • Boarding House
      • Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace
      • Rebecca O. Young (1847-1927), banker
      • Walter H. Downs (b. 1853), attorney
      • Charles Edward Norton (1795 - 1873), justice of the peace, town clerk, church deacon;Charles E. Whitehead (c. 1817 – 1878), tailor
      • Thomas J. Goodwin (1833-1912), selectman
      • Freewill Baptist Church
      • Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer; Willis Salley, World War I veteran
      • N. Hanson, Druggist
      • E. R. McIntire Hardware Store
      • J. P. Davis Stores & Tinware
      • Union Store
      • C. C. Merrill Shoe Store
      • S. W. Ricker Fancy Goods
      • Rebecca Smith Millinery Store
      • Chas. E. Hobbs, Grocer
      • Chas. Malloy, Boots and Shoes
      • Tyler Jeweler and Brookings Photo
      • Chas. E. Whitehead Tailor
      • N. W. Kendall Stationer
      • Mary Ann Wentworth Hart (1820-1891), Freewill Baptist preacher; Alfred W. Hart (1843-1863), Civil War soldier
      • Business Block Businesses
      • Horatio Nelson Twombly, China trader
      • Newichawannock Hall
      • The Browns, Farmers of Tatnic
      • 1825 letter from New Orleans by Capt Theodore F Jewett
      • South Berwick Civil War Veterans
      • Deborah Brock, mill worker
      • Eliza Ann Barker, choir leader
      • Benjamin Franklin Davis, Civil War soldier
      • Mattson Sanborn
      • Benjamin Stillings, liquor dealer
      • Francis Brown Hayes (1819-1884), railroad executive
      • Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), shopkeeper
      • Joseph Murphy (1796-1872), carpenter and cabinetmaker
      • South Berwick Central School
      • Ruel B. Rideout (1874-1944)
      • Ben F. Davis (1862-1933), druggist
      • Arthur E. Muzzey jeweler; Mary L. Muzzey, teacher; George A. Muzzey (1903-1945), World War II soldier
      • South Berwick Electric Company
      • John Thomas Driscoll (d. 1941), chief of police, lunch counter owner
      • George W. Butler (1814-1881), merchant, church treasurer; Ruel B. Rideout (1874-1944), retail merchant
      • House at 341 Main Street
      • House at 343 Main Street
      • Dr. Frank Flynn, dentist
      • House at 376 Main Street
      • Paul Parent, coal dealer
      • House at 378 Main Street
      • House at 380 Main Street
      • House at 388 Main Street
      • House at 392 Main Street
      • House at 400 Main Street
      • House at 394 Main Street
      • House at 395 Main Street (at Webster)
      • Timothy D. Flynn, shopkeeper
      • John Mahony, billiard hall operator
      • Delia Heon O’Donnell, grocer
      • House at 405 Main Street
      • Arthur Landry, cobbler; Reo Landry, barber
      • Patrick Cauley (b.c. 1850), confectioner, and Bridget Cauley, mill worker
      • Albert Roberge, Sr., baker, and Emily Gilliland Roberge
      • Joseph Roberge, baker, and Albert Roberge, Sr., confectioner
      • Joseph Roberge and Albert Roberge, Sr., bakers
      • Rev. Lewis Tibbetts (1810-1885), Methodist minister; Provensal family
      • Mary Provensal (b. 1882), shop owner, Dube family
      • Dube family
      • William Preston (1809-1875), weaver; Arthur Landry, cobbler
      • Ed Lauzon, grocer
      • Cleophas Dube, insurance dealer, and Adelia Turgeon Dube
      • Omer Saindon, tailor
      • John Cleary and Clifford Cleary, tobacconists and candy store owners
      • Arthur St. Pierre, brick mason
      • Laundry
      • William Doherty, barber, and Ellen Cleary Doherty; Chaney Family
      • Leo “Ben” Vachon
      • Dance Halls and other Gatherings
      • Team Sports and Horseracing
      • Amateur Theater in South Berwick
      • Old Berwick Historical Society 1962-2012
      • Swasey-Currier House
      • Pelletier Family, shoe workers
      • Harry Adlington, railroad agent
  • Sarah Orne Jewett's South Berwick
    • Great Works
    • Secrets of Pipe Stave Landing
    • Ships built 1700-1847 in South Berwick area
    • The Launch of the Berwick by John Marr
    • South Berwick's History of Firefighting
    • The Landing Mill and Its Time by Annie Wentworth Baer, 1914
    • Mill Operators Listed in Great Works Area, from South Berwick Town Register, 1904
    • Timeline of the Great Works Mills
    • Trades and Barter
    • The History of the State of Maine by William D. Williamson, 1832
    • A Description Of The Town And Village by Judge Benjamin Chadbourne, 1790s
    • Frost Tavern history by Elizabeth C. Frost
    • The First Permanent Settlement in Maine by Everett S. Stackpole, 1926
    • Berwick by William F. Lord, 1872
    • Early History of Great Works by Miss Margaret Foote, c. 1900 -
      • Works by Sarah Orne Jewett Published During Her Years in the Jewett-Eastman House
      • The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • An Every-Day Girl by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • The Old Town of Berwick - Sarah Orne Jewett's history of South Berwick
      • The Church Mouse by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • The Failure of David Berry by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • Peg's Little Chair by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • A Native of Winby by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • A Village Shop by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • Decoration Day by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • Between Mass and Vespers by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • The Packet Boat by Sarah Orne Jewett
      • The Stage Tavern by Sarah Orne Jewett
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