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Woodbury

By: Robert W. Sands Jr.,Barbara L. Turner,Gloucester County Historical Society

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Woodbury

By: Robert W. Sands Jr.,Barbara L. Turner,Gloucester County Historical Society

Woodbury possesses a rich heritage that reads like the story of America. Established in 1683 by Quakers seeking religious freedom, the community was occupied for three days by British troops under Gen. Charles Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. In 1787, Woodbury became the county seat of Gloucester County, and it remains so to this day. It was home to Capt. James Lawrence, who coined the phrase "Don't give up the ship" during the War of 1812. Woodbury features views of the lavish homes built by prominent residents, scenes of the 1904 train wreck, and never-before-published images of the Broad Street business district in the mid-1900s.

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1439633975

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New Gloucester

By: Thomas P. Blake,New Gloucester Historical Society

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New Gloucester

By: Thomas P. Blake,New Gloucester Historical Society

Named by the proprietors from Gloucester, Massachusetts, New Gloucester began as a frontier town, as it was the most inland settlement in Maine at the time. Incorporated in 1774, the town has been called home by such notables as mapmaker and author Moses Greenleaf, artist D. D. Coombs, original proprietor of the town of Foxcroft Joseph E. Foxcroft, traveling minister Ephraim Stinchfield, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of treasury William Pitt Fessenden, and abolitionist Samuel Fessenden. Shaker societies were set up in nine states, but the Sabbathday Lake Society, founded in 1783, is now the only active Shaker community remaining. With a long history of lumber mills and farms, New Gloucester is also home to Pineland Farms, the former site of the Maine Home for the Feeble-Minded, established in 1908, and now a renovated 19-building campus and 5,000-acre working farm.

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By: Robert W. Sands Jr.,Barbara L. Turner,Gloucester County Historical Society

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New Gloucester

By: Thomas P. Blake,New Gloucester Historical Society

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By: Thomas P. Blake,New Gloucester Historical Society

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