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Frank J. Wood was the proprietor of a farm in Topsham, Maine. Before the bridge was built, he petitioned the state to move the location slightly from where the older bridge was located. He was rewarded for his efforts with the name of the bridge. Wood died only three years after the opening of the Frank J. Wood Bridge in 1935.
The Androscoggin Swinging Bridge was built in 1892 to accommodate cotton mill employees living at Topsham Heights in Topsham, Maine, a new housing development built in the late 19th century. [3] Topsham Heights was a neighborhood that was inhabited by a large Franco-American population recruited from Canada to work in the mills.
The Purinton Family Farm occupies a property bounded on the south by the Androscoggin River, the west by the Brunswick-Topsham Bypass (Maine State Route 196), and the north by Elm Street (Maine State Route 24). Its eastern boundary is a gully separating the property from the Topsham Public Library and other properties.
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Topsham (US: / ˈ t ɒ p. s ʌ m / ⓘ TOP-sum) is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Topsham was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 9,560 at the 2020 census. [3] It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The ...
Roads in Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine c. 1764. The Pejepscot Proprietors was a company of land investors who colonized the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine, between 1715 and 1814. [1] The area known as Pejepscot, Maine, was first inhabited by the Wabanaki Native Americans.
The Pejepscot Paper Company mill building is a historic paper mill located off U.S. 201 in Topsham, Maine, on the banks of the Androscoggin River, adjacent from Brunswick Falls and the Frank J. Wood Bridge. Built in 1868, the building is one of the oldest surviving paper mills in the state of Maine.
Thomas Purchase (1577–1678), also known as Thomas Purchis and Thomas Purchas, was the first English settler to occupy the region of Pejepscot, Maine in what is now Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell. In 1628 he set up a trading post at the site of Fort Andross to barter with the local Wabanaki Native Americans.