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Virtual South Berwick Village
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Written by Old Berwick Historical society
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VIRTUAL SEACOAST TOURS
Victorian writer Sarah Orne Jewett feared that her perfect little Maine town
was about to be swept away by progress. But 100 years later, it is still here,
and still much as she left it. Now distant readers can stroll this 19th century village without even leaving their chairs, thanks to Old Berwick Historical.
VISIT South Berwick Virtual Tour
We hope this is the beginning of a trend. More Seacoast towns have begun telling
their history online. Lane Library in Hampton, NH has an extraordinary archive.
Dover Library has joined in. But South Berwick is the first to create a virtual
downtown walking tour.
This grassroots effort, created by the Old Berwick Historical Society, takes
you down Portland, Main, Academy and Norton streets. More than 80 structures are
covered on the web page and half of those include in-depth articles created by
society volunteers.

South Berwick is best known from the nostalgic fiction and poetry by Victorian
author Sarah Orne Jewett whose house is now a downtown museum. As a special feature,
the Sotuth Berwick tour offers links between historic facts and Jewett’s fiction.
Jewett lived in South Berwick from 1849 to 1909 and might be surprised to see
how much of her beloved river village still survives.
South Berwick village got its start as a commercial center when an old stagecoach
route connecting Boston to Portland went through in the late 1700s. The region
was settled much earlier and local archeological digs show elaborate buildings
dating from the 1640s. The Sarah Orne Jewett House, built about 1774, is probably the oldest house standing in the village, but
many other buildings come close. The Academy Street Inn was once a home built
by the prosecutor of the 1873 Smuttynose murder at the Isles of Shoals.
Also known for Berwick Academy, founded in 1791, the village makes a great out-of-the-way
walking tour. The active downtown, white churches, old cemeteries, 19th century homes are classic New England. Besides the Jewett House and Counting
Museum downtown, visitors can easily bicycle to Vaughan Woods park and the historic Hamilton House nearby. Walkers can easily wander across
Salmon Falls River to tour Rollinsford, NH next door. The Salmon Falls region
is increasingly known for the number of artists, craftspeople and musicians living
there. -- JDR |
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| Saturday, November 21, 2009 |
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