Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Brunswick is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, and the Maine State Music Theatre. It was formerly home to the U.S. Naval Air Station Brunswick, which was permanently closed on May 31, 2011, and has since been partially released to redevelopment as "Brunswick Landing".
William King was an American merchant, shipbuilder, army officer, and statesman from Bath, Maine. A proponent of statehood for Maine, he became its first governor when it separated from Massachusetts in 1820. He was the half-brother of Rufus King, who was a member of the Confederation Congress from Massachusetts, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, served as United States Senator from New York, and as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James from 1796 to 1803 and again from 1825 to 1826.
Alpheus Felch was the fifth governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan.
Elbridge Gerry was an American lawyer, who served as a U.S. Congressman from Maine from 1849 to 1851.
Charles Allen was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Thomas Weston Thompson was an American attorney and Federalist politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a United States representative and United States Senator during the 1800s.
John Curtis Chamberlain was an American attorney and Federalist politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Cyrus King was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, half-brother of Rufus King.
Robert Orr Harris was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, son of Benjamin Winslow Harris.
Theodore Trapplan "Tappan" Michael Wentworth was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1855.
John Otis was a U.S. Representative from Maine.
Robert Pinckney Dunlap was the 11th Governor of Maine and a U.S. Representative from Maine.
Cullen Sawtelle was an American attorney and politician from Maine. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1845 to 1847 and 1849 to 1851.
Stephen Longfellow was a U.S. Representative from Maine.
Benjamin Randall was a United States representative from Maine from 1839 to 1843.
Charles Stetson was a United States representative from Maine, and the eldest member of a powerful Bangor political family. He was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, on November 2, 1801, but moved with his parents to Hampden, Maine, in 1802. His father Simeon Stetson kept a store and a sawmill, and built vessels for the West India Trade. His uncle Amasa Stetson was proprietor of the nearby town of Stetson, Maine, where Simeon had briefly settled before moving to Hampden.
Matthew Harvey was a United States representative from New Hampshire, the 13th governor of New Hampshire and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Topsham is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Topsham was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 9,560 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The town is home to the annual Topsham Fair.
Fort Andross, also known as Fort George and Cabot Mill, was initially established as a trading post and later converted into a historic garrison by the colonial British Empire as a defensive measure against the Wabanaki Native Americans who were allied with France during King William's War (1688–1697). It was situated next to Brunswick Falls, on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick, Maine. During the war, the fortification was destroyed, rebuilt, and renamed Fort George in 1715. Once the Native American wars came to an end, the fort was abandoned.
George Augustus Wheeler, MD was a surgeon in the American Civil War and a prominent Maine historian. He authored two historical books including History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, which the Pejepscot Historical Society states as the "authoritative text on the three towns through 1878".
