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Location in Cumberland County and the state of Maine.
Country United States State Maine Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County in southeastern Maine, United States.
The populace was 20,278 at the 2010 United States Census.
Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford urbane area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary-Mac - Millan Arctic Museum, The Theater Project, and the Maine State Music Theatre.
It is also home to Mid Coast Hospital, one of Maine's newest full-service hospitals; and Parkview Adventist Medical Center that closed in 2015 after filing for bankruptcy.
It was home to Naval Air Station Brunswick which was permanently closed on May 31, 2011.
Map of Brunswick, ME May 29, 1795 The rail yard at Brunswick, ME 1910 During King Philip's War in 1676, Pejepscot was burned and abandoned, although a garrison called Fort Andros was assembled on the ruins amid King William's War.
He went up the Androscoggin River to the English Fort Pejepscot (present day Brunswick, Maine). From there he went 40 miles up-river and attacked a native village.
The Massachusetts General Court constituted the township in 1717, naming it Brunswick with respect to the House of Brunswick and its scion, King George I.
Brunswick was rebuilt again in 1727, and in 1739 incorporated as a town.
Brunswick became a primary producer of lumber, with as many as 25 sawmills.
The town was site of the first cotton foundry in Maine, the Brunswick Cotton Manufactory Company, assembled in 1809 to make yarn.
Purchased in 1812, the foundry was enlarged by the Maine Cotton & Woolen Factory Company. In 1857, the Cabot Manufacturing Company was established to make cotton textiles.
Needing even more room, the business in 1890 persuaded the town to move Maine Street. Today, Brunswick has a number of historic districts recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Pennellville Historic District preserving shipbuilders' and sea captains' mansions assembled in the Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles.
Principal employers for Brunswick include L.L.
A number of community services providers serving Maine's mid-coast region are positioned in Brunswick. The former Naval Air Station Brunswick was a primary employer in Brunswick before to its closure.
The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe while she was living in Brunswick, because her husband was a professor at Bowdoin.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 54.34 square miles (140.74 km2), of which 46.73 square miles (121.03 km2) is territory and 7.61 square miles (19.71 km2) is water. Brunswick is positioned at the north end of Casco Bay, as well as the head of tide and head of navigation on the Androscoggin River.
Climate data for Brunswick, Maine Brunswick See also: Brunswick (CDP), Maine There were 9,599 housing units at an average density of 205.4 per square mile (79.3/km2).
There were 8,469 homeholds of which 25.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them; 44.7% were married couples living together; 9.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present; 3.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present; and 42.3% were non-families.
The median age in the town was 41.4 years.
19.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 14.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.8% were from 25 to 44; 27.6% were from 45 to 64; and 18.2% were 65 years of age or older.
Brunswick High School The Brunswick School Department operates enhance schools.
Brunswick High School Routes 1 and 201, and Maine State Route 24, Maine State Route 123 and Maine State Route 196.
Maine Eastern Railroad train at the Amtrak station in Brunswick Amtrak's Downeaster train service terminates at Brunswick Maine Street Station and joins the town to the Portland Transportation Center and Boston's North Station.
Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War era general and 32nd governor of Maine Dunlap, congressman, 11th governor of Maine Angus King, US Senator, 72nd governor of Maine John Rankin Rogers, third Governor of the state of Washington United States Enumeration Bureau.
Drake, The Border Wars of New England.
(1886), Gazetteer of the state of Maine.
Brunswick, Boston: Russell Historical Sketch of Brunswick, Maine (1889) a b Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
"Monthly Averages for Brunswick, Maine".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Brunswick (Maine).
History of the Town Commons, Brunswick, Maine History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine Including Ancient Pejebscot.
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Town of Brunswick official website Brunswick travel guide from Wikivoyage Brunswick Falls c.
One of middle-class New England homes in Brunswick Brunswick Town Hall Post Office in Brunswick Of Gothic Revival architecture, the First Parish United Church of Christ at 207 Maine Street in Brunswick (founded 1845), was added in 1969 to the National Register of Historic Places.
Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, Maine, United States State of Maine
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