City/Town

North Berwick (1877)

Map Title

North Berwick York Co. Maine 1877.

Artist

Preview

Publication Date

1877

County

York

Artist

Unknown

Publisher

Ruger & Stoner

Dimensions

33 x 41 cm

Owner

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Additional Institutional Copies

Maine Historical Society
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Library of Congress

Population of City/Town at Time of Publication

1,623

Description of City/Town

Farming is the principal occupation of the inhabitants. The principal village is at the south-west part, at the junction of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth and Boston and Maine railroads. The North Berwick Woolen Company have a fine brick mill on the Great Works River, at the village. It is 120 feet long and three stories in height, and has an engine of sufficient power to carry the mill in case of drought. Forty looms, six sets of cards, and thirteen spinning jacks are operated, which turn out daily 1,500 yards of flannel, beside blankets, and employ about 80 hands.

A Gazetteer of the State of Maine, George J. Varney, 1881, 1886

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