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DESTINATION

Brunswick

Between disasters, during 1714-15, a group called the Pejepscot Proprietors bought the post, built Fort George and planned the spacious grid pattern of the streets. One thoroughfare was the Twelve Rod Road, now Maine Street; measuring 198 feet across, it is one of the widest streets in New England. By the late 1700s the settlement, renamed Brunswick, was an important lumbering, milling and shipbuilding center.

Bowdoin College, established in 1794, is the home of the Maine State Music Theater, where a professional cast performs Broadway musicals early June to late August; phone (207) 725-8769. A summer organ music series is presented on Tuesdays at noon in the summer at the First Parish Church; phone (207) 729-7331. Free open-air concerts are held on the Mall on Wednesday evenings late June through August.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's inspiration for “Uncle Tom's Cabin” supposedly came from a sermon delivered at the First Parish Church on Maine Street, open for worship since 1717. Another celebrated local was Gov. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, noted for his defense at Gettysburg and for being the only Union general to receive a battlefield promotion from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Visitor Centers

Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber 8 Venture Ave. Brunswick, ME 04011. Phone:(207)725-8797

Things to Do

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Museum

Skolfield-Whittier House

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