Brewer, Maine Brewer, Maine Official seal of Brewer, Maine Brewer is positioned in Maine Brewer - Brewer Brewer is a town/city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
The town/city is titled after its first settler, Colonel John Brewer. The populace was 9,482 at the 2010 census.
Brewer is the sister town/city of Bangor.
Brewer and Bangor were originally both part of Condeskeag Plantation, though the Brewer part was also called "New Worcester" after John Brewer's birthplace.
Finally, in 1812 Brewer broke away from Orrington and incorporated as a separate town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.68 square miles (40.61 km2), of which, 15.23 square miles (39.45 km2) is territory and 0.45 square miles (1.17 km2) is water. The villages of South Brewer and North Brewer are both inside town/city limits.
South Brewer was formerly the city's primary industrial area.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Brewer has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The Victorian-style Daniel Sargent House (1847 and later) in South Brewer is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sargent was the owner of a large South Brewer sawmill.
During the Civil War, he commanded the business of "Tigers" (Penobscot River Drivers) in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also called "The Bangor Regiment".
Brewer was as famous for brick-making in the 19th century as Bangor was for lumber.
Most of these were shipped to Boston and vicinity. It is said that most of the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods of Boston are assembled of Brewer brick.
Ship-building was also a primary Brewer industry, as was saw-milling.
Brewer's sawmills tended to be steam-powered, unlike those farther up the Penobscot River, which were powered by waterfalls.
The Eastern Manufacturing Company opened a pulp and paper foundry in South Brewer in 1889 that became the city's biggest employer.
In 1899, Ayer patented a new health of sulfite digestion which later became the basis for operations at the Eastern, as well as the Great Northern foundry in Millinocket, Maine, thus circumventing an meaningful patent owned by the competing International Paper Corporation.
The feat was reported in the New York Times, which called Polliot "not only the prettiest girl in South Brewer, but the pluckiest". They took $300 from the vault (most of the cash having been removed beforehand) and retreated athwart the bridge to Bangor firing their guns at citizens in Brewer and police on the Bangor side.
On June 12, 1906, four Brewer High School students drowned while sailing at Brewer Lake.
The Ku Klux Klan paraded openly down North Main Street in Brewer in 1924. Howie Day, singer-musician, raised in Brewer, graduated from Brewer High School (1999) Adrian Grenier, actor, lived in Brewer amid the mid-1990s The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.4% White, 0.7% African American, 0.8% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.3% from other competitions, and 1.8% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,163 homeholds of which 27.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.3% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.2% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 41.1 years.
20.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.2% were from 25 to 44; 27.6% were from 45 to 64; and 17.1% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.63% White, 0.33% African American, 0.63% Native American, 0.55% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other competitions, and 0.60% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,842 homeholds of which 29.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families.
22.4% of the populace were under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 8.6% of families and 10.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 13.3% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.
"Brewer, Maine City Charter" (PDF).
Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums (1970).
Climate Summary for Brewer, Maine Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, 1897.
Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, 1910.
"A history of Eastern Fine Paper, South Brewer (timeline)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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