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Frank J. Wood was the proprietor of a farm in Topsham, Maine. Before the bridge was built, he petitioned the state to move the location slightly from where the older bridge was located. He was rewarded for his efforts with the name of the bridge. Wood died only three years after the opening of the Frank J. Wood Bridge in 1935.
The Pejepscot Paper Company mill building is a historic paper mill located off U.S. 201 in Topsham, Maine, on the banks of the Androscoggin River, adjacent from Brunswick Falls and the Frank J. Wood Bridge. Built in 1868, the building is one of the oldest surviving paper mills in the state of Maine.
Roads in Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine c. 1764. The Pejepscot Proprietors was a company of land investors who colonized the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine, between 1715 and 1814. [1] The area known as Pejepscot, Maine, was first inhabited by the Wabanaki Native Americans.
York was born in 1645, to Richard York and Elizabeth Graves, likely in Durham, Massachusetts Bay Colony. [2] He was their second son, after John, who lived in North Yarmouth, in today's Maine, before moving south to Scarborough. [1]
Thomas Purchase (1577–1678), also known as Thomas Purchis and Thomas Purchas, was the first English settler to occupy the region of Pejepscot, Maine in what is now Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell. In 1628 he set up a trading post at the site of Fort Andross to barter with the local Wabanaki Native Americans.
Pejepscot is a historical settlement first occupied by a subset of the Androscoggin Native Americans (Formerly known as the Anasagunticooks) known as the Wabanaki.The region encompasses the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine in Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties and was first settled by English settlers in 1628.
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Brunswick Falls, also known as Pejepscot Falls, lie on a rocky section of the Androscoggin River, bordering the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine, United Ststes.First occupied by Paleoindians and the Wabanaki Native Americans, the falls were a plentiful resource for food and trade.