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Item 23119

Title: Skolfield House, Brunswick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Brunswick

Media: Photograph

Item 12186

Title: St. John's School, Brunswick, 1943

Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society

Date: 1943-05-06

Location: Brunswick

Media: Photograph, print

Item 4323

Title: Scituate [now Brunswick] map, 1738

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1738

Location: Brunswick

Media: ink on paper

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Exhibit

Brunswick-Topsham pedestrian bridge, ca. 1920

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Exhibit

Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec

The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.

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Urban Renewal, Urban Removal

Urban renewal, a post World War II impulse to clean up "slums" and other blights in urban areas, led both to renewed economic activities in some cities and towns in Maine and the loss of a number of grand buildings. The loss of the structures helped prompt historic preservation efforts in the state.