Keywords: Topsham Falls
Item 20985
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Topsham Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 11926
Morrill and Danforth lots, Topsham, 1760
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1760-09-10
Location: Topsham
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.
Exhibit
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
In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock
"References: • The History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, by George Augustus Wheeler, M.D."
Site Page
"… as Quabecook (Merrymeeting Bay), and the names of falls on the Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls), which divided…"
