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The Federal Street Historic District of Brunswick, Maine encompasses a part of the town whose development was influenced by its 18th-century success as a shipping center, and by the presence of Bowdoin College (chartered 1794), whose historic central campus is part of the district. In addition to the campus, the district includes a series of ...
Map of Brunswick, Maine, dated May 29, 1795 The rail yard at Brunswick, Maine, pictured in a c. 1910 postcard. Settled in 1628 by Thomas Purchase and other fishermen, the area was called by its Indian name, Pejepscot, meaning "the long, rocky rapids part [of the river]".
Maine Street was originally called the "Twelve-Rod Road". A Rod is an Imperial unit equal to 16.5 feet (5.0 m) making the width of Maine Street equal to 198 feet (60 m). [4] On June 3, 1717, by order of the Pejepscot Proprietors, construction started on the road spanning from Fort George to Maquoit Bay. From the Bowdoin College north to Maquoit ...
The Lincoln Street Historic District in Brunswick, Maine, is an 8-acre (3.2 ha) historic district encompassing a remarkably uniform assemblage of mid 19th-century residential construction. It includes fourteen houses, most of which were built in a two-year period between 1843 and 1845.
Maine Eastern Railroad operated passenger service between Brunswick and Rockland from 2004 to 2015. Maine Eastern used the open lot on Cedar Street prior to the construction of the first phase of Maine Street Station, when it began boarding passengers from a portable platform at the beginning of the 2010 season. [citation needed]
Brunswick is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brunswick in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 15,175 at the 2010 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford , Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Pennellville Historic District / ˈ p ɛ n ɪ l v ɪ l / is a residential district located in Brunswick, Maine.To locals, the neighborhood is known simply as "Pennellville." There are several historic ship captains' houses in the District; much of the real estate is waterfront property.
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the U.S. state of Maine is a major north–south section of the United States Numbered Highway System, serving the eastern part of the state.It parallels the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire north through Portland, Brunswick, and Belfast to Calais, and then the St. Croix River and the rest of the Canada–United States border via Houlton to Fort Kent.