Post by ❥ CAPTAIN CHAR on Feb 18, 2013 12:47:34 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 350px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] BRUNSWICK, MAINE GOOD TO KNOW GOOD TO KNOW GOOD TO KNOW GOOD TO KNOW GOOD TO KNOW POPULATION | Approximately 20,000 LOCATION | Located in Cumberland County, Maine near Portland and the state's capital, Augusta, which is only forty miles Northeast. EARLY HISTORY | Settled originally by fisherman Thomas Purchase, Brunswick (then called Pejepscot) was placed under the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639. Brunswick was officially established as a town in 1717, named after the House of Brunswick, but a group of Abenakis indians burned the town to the ground for the second time in history. The town wasn't reestablished as a town until 1739, later becoming a successful seaport and home for Bowdoin College. When Maine separated from Massachusetts and became its own state in 1820, Brunswick was a center for textiles and lumber. ARCHITECTURE | Between 1775 and 1900, a lot of money was invested in building historic homes that are recognized nationwide. FUN FACTS | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was written while she was living in Brunswick |
