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North Yarmouth, officially the Town of North Yarmouth, is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. North Yarmouth is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 4,072 at the 2020 United States Census. [2]
An Attempt to Revive the Memory of Individuals Whose Names Were Once Household Words in Old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth (1910), Shipbuilding Days and Tales of the Sea, in Old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine (1924) and Shipbuilding Days in Casco Bay, 1727–1890: Being Footnotes to the Maritime History of Maine (1929).
The history of Yarmouth, Maine, is closely tied to its position on the banks of the Royal River and its proximity to Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine, itself a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean. Native Americans originally settled the area, and several wars between them and later European settlers occurred before they were driven from the area ...
William Hutchinson Rowe (March 6, 1882 [1] – 1955) was an American author and historian who lived in Yarmouth, Maine.The town's elementary school, built the year he died, is now named for him. [2]
Yarmouth's marina in 2022, looking south. Also known as Falls Village or The Falls, Lower Falls (named for the nearby First Falls) was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while—on the southern side of today's East Main Street Bridge—was Yarmouth's harbor, where many hundreds of ships were built and launched in the century between 1790 and 1890.
Sparhawk Mill is a former cotton mill on Bridge Street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States.Built in 1840 and made of brick, it is home today to several businesses. The mill stands, just east of the town's Second Falls, [2] on the site of several previous mill buildings, the earliest of which was a wooden mill dating to 1817.
William Hawes (born October 23, 1772) [1] was an American miller.He was one of the first mill owners in North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts, in the part of town that became, in 1849, Yarmouth, Maine, where over fifty mills were in business thereafter.
George Felt (February 28, 1601 – c. 1693) [1] was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies.A mason by trade, he is considered a founder of the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, and is one of the three main early settlers of North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Yarmouth, Maine), along with John Cousins and William Royal.