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South Berwick, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia

Maine's first sawmill was built in 1634, near a waterfall in South Berwick.


Luther Calvin Tibbetts, born in South Berwick, perfected the seedless orange.


South Berwick-born novelist and short story writer Sarah Orne Jewett used the pen name Alice C. Eliot for her early writings.


South Berwick's Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, "The Country of the Pointed Firs," was first published in 1896.


John Greenleaf Whitter was inspired to write his poem "Maud Muller" while riding a country road near South Berwick when he saw a young woman haying .


Town Nicknames: Parish Of Unity


What is the most fun thing to do in South Berwick, Maine?

the strawberry festival

 

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