North Berwick, Maine
| North Berwick | |
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Market Street c. 1910
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| Motto: "The Power To Choose" | |
 North Berwick
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| Coordinates: 43°19′39″N 70°45′53″W / 43.32750°N 70.76472°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maine |
| County | York |
| Incorporated | March 22, 1831 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 38.16 sq mi (98.83 km2) |
| • Land | 38.02 sq mi (98.47 km2) |
| • Water | 0.14 sq mi (0.36 km2) |
| Elevation | 282 ft (86 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 4,576 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 4,610 |
| • Density | 120.4/sq mi (46.5/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 03906 |
| Area code(s) | 207 |
| FIPS code | 23-50325 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0582628 |
| Website | Official Website |
North Berwick is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,576 at the 2010 census.
North Berwick is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
Originally a part of Kittery called Kittery Commons, the area was first settled in 1693 by John Morrell, a Quaker who built a log cabin on Wells Street. It was set off from Kittery in 1713 as part of Berwick, named for Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Anglo-Scottish border. Doughty Falls in the Great Works River provided water power for a sawmill, gristmill and carding mill. After the Revolutionary War, the small mill town grew rapidly. It was set off and incorporated as North Berwick on March 22, 1831. The town was named after Berwick, England.
Development was spurred in 1842 by the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad, joined by the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1873. North Berwick became a railroad hub from which its manufactured goods were shipped, including lumber, shingles, clapboards, wooden boxes, firewood, bricks, carriages, caskets, clocks, stove and shoe polish, toboggans and sleds. Also loaded aboard the boxcars were barrels of apples, blocks of ice cut from frozen ponds, granite from quarries, and tins of corn packed at a canning factory. But the 2 biggest North Berwick businesses during the 19th-century made woolens and farm implements.
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