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:''This article is about the town in Maine, USA. For the town in Scotland, see North Berwick.'' North Berwick is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,576 at the 2010 census. North Berwick is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. ==History== Originally a part of Kittery called Kittery Commons, the area was first settled in 1693 by John Morrell, a Quaker who built a log cabin on Wells Street. It was set off from Kittery in 1713 as part of Berwick, named for Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Anglo-Scottish border. Doughty Falls in the Great Works River provided water power for a sawmill, gristmill and carding mill. After the Revolutionary War, the small mill town grew rapidly. It was set off and incorporated as North Berwick on March 22, 1831.〔 The town was named after Berwick, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Profile for North Berwick, Maine, ME )〕 Development was spurred in 1842 by the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad, joined by the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1873. North Berwick became a railroad hub from which its manufactured goods were shipped, including lumber, shingles, clapboards, wooden boxes, firewood, bricks, carriages, caskets, clocks, stove and shoe polish, toboggans and sleds. Also loaded aboard the boxcars were barrels of apples, blocks of ice cut from frozen ponds, granite from quarries, and tins of corn packed at a canning factory. But the 2 biggest North Berwick businesses during the 19th-century made woolens and farm implements.〔 〕 In 1834, the Maine Legislature incorporated Lang, Hill & Company to manufacture woolen blankets, called "printing blankets," at a mill beside the Great Works River. Renamed the North Berwick Company, by 1850 its principal owner was "Friend" William Hill, who trained as a machinist at the Great Falls Manufacturing Company in Somersworth, New Hampshire. The wooden mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, but rebuilt in brick in 1862. It produced blankets for Civil War troops. The factory had 40 looms turning out 1,500 yards of flannel daily, in addition to blankets. In 1955, the North Berwick Company would close. Its landmark Greek Revival building was used as the Parrish Shoes factory in the 1995 movie ''Jumanji'', and has since been renovated and adapted as housing.〔''Doughty Falls, the History of the Town of North Berwick, Maine 1831-2006;'' Peter E. Randall, publisher; Portsmouth, New Hampshire〕 File:Cleverock Farm, North Berwick, ME.jpg|Cleverock Farm in 1907 File:The Hurd Residence, North Berwick, ME.jpg|Hurd Manor c. 1910 File:Under the Elms, North Berwick, ME.jpg|J. E. Lord House in 1910 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Berwick, Maine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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