Brunswick, Maine (ME), United States

Facts & Statistics
Place Name	Brunswick
Place Status (Type)	town
Population	20,906 (1990)
Location	Cumberland County, Maine (ME), United States, North America
Latitude	43°53'N
Longitude	69°58'W

Brunswick , town (1990 pop. 20,906), Cumberland co., S Maine, on the Androscoggin R. and Casco Bay, and 24 mi/39 km NE of Portland; 43°53'N 69°58'W. In a resort area. It is a growing commercial center for S Maine; prods. include shoes and clothing. Bowdoin Col. (1794) and a U.S. naval air station are in Brunswick. Maine Statehouse Theatre operates in summer. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were students at Bowdoin Col. during the 1820s. Longfellow later taught there; a house dating from 1808 was once his home. Hawthorne's first novel, Fanshawe (1828), was printed in the town. In 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin here; her house (now an inn) is a natl. landmark. Bowdoin Pines are 125 years old and 90 ft/27 m tall. After the Civil War, textiles became Brunswick's chief industry, but the industry declined after World War II. Settled as a trading post in 1628, inc. 1738.