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First settled in the 1640s, the village developed along a major route between Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine in the early 19th century. The village has about 150 years of architecture reflective of this history, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The house was adapted for use as the South Berwick Public Library in the 1970s and was sold by SPNEA in 1984 to a local non-profit. Repurchased by HNE in 2011 after the library moved out, the house currently serves as a gallery and function space, as well as the visitors center for the adjacent Sarah Orne Jewett House.
South Berwick: Second set of addresses represents a boundary increase March 22, 1996 9: Berwick High School: Berwick High School: January 27, 2012 : 45 School St. Berwick: Berwick's high school 1928-2001. 10: Biddeford City Hall: Biddeford City Hall
Maine State Route 4 passes through the center of the village, leading north-northeast 17 miles (27 km) to Sanford, and southwest across the Salmon Falls River, where New Hampshire Route 4 continues 4 miles (6 km) to the city of Dover. State Route 236 leads northwest four miles to Berwick village and south 12 miles (19 km) to Kittery.
The Portsmouth Company was a cotton mill established in 1832 in South Berwick, Maine, USA, one of several in the area. It was operated for many years under the control of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Hale family. [citation needed] Its counting house is now a museum operated by the Old Berwick Historical Society.
Punkintown (or Punkin Town [1]), once known as Emerytown, [2] Emery Town, [3] or Emeryville, [4] was a village situated at the corners of South Berwick, Eliot, and York, Maine from the 1800s through the early 1900s. At its peak, between seven and ten families gave the small town its population of somewhere between 30 and 40 people.
The Sarah Orne Jewett House is a historic house museum at 5 Portland Street in South Berwick, Maine, United States.The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its lifelong association with the American author Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), whose influential work exemplified regional writing of the late 19th century.
South Berwick (CDP), Maine; South Berwick Village Historic District; V. Vaughan Woods State Park This page was last edited on 15 August 2017, at 12:34 (UTC). Text ...