People of the 20th Century
By 1900, many old families had left their farms, but hundreds of new ones – many originally from Ireland and Canada – had come to work in the factories of South Berwick and Rollinsford. In the neighborhood of Happy Valley, dozens of homes and shops sprang up -- even an electric trolley line in 1903 – and French was spoken everywhere. As the century wore on, though, the economy characterized by clattering mills and whistling trains was replaced by the suburban lifestyle.
Meet some the 20th century people of old Berwick.
Ruel B. Rideout
- 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