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The Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church is set on the east side of Capitol Hill Road, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of its junction with New Sweden Road (Maine State Route 161). The church is a single-story wood frame structure whose exterior is finished in stucco. Its windows are uniformly Gothic style lancet-arch windows.
On April 27, 2003, 78-year-old Walter Reid Morrill, known to the town by his middle name, died of arsenic poisoning after drinking coffee at the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, and 15 other, mostly elderly churchgoers became ill, three of them seriously.
Young's 2005 book, A Bitter Brew: Faith, Power and Poison in a Small New England Town, documented a 2003 arsenic poisoning that took place at a small Lutheran church in New Sweden, Maine, killing one church member and making 15 others critically ill.
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The issue of Arsenic poisoning from groundwater in Bangladesh needs to be addressed properly in one place. Info already on Wikipedia includes: A reference in Bangladesh: Nickson, R, McArthur, J & Burgess, W, et al. (1998), "Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater", Nature, no. 6700, pp. 338. A section about the problem in Arsenic.
Station Rd. northeast of New Sweden 46°56′48″N 68°06′15″W / 46.946667°N 68.104167°W / 46.946667; -68.104167 ( Larsson-Noak Historic New Sweden
Stefanie Damron, now 14, was last seen on Monday, Sept. 23, walking into the woods near her home in New Sweden, Maine Teen Who Disappeared After Argument with Sister Still Missing Over a Month ...
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