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Quiet Exterior Masks an Active Little Town
Visitors to Brooklin probably consider the town to be pretty quiet. There is a village
center with a library and general store. The town office, nearby, is
open for three hours each Tuesday afternoon.
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Yesterday |
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Townspeople Protected Famed Writer’s Privacy
All of America enjoyed for years the writing of the man whom
Brooklin got to enjoy every day, E.B. White. Essayist and
novelist White and his wife, the editor and garden writer
Katharine Sergeant White, lived in Brooklin full-time starting
in 1957, having been in town part-time since 1939
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“I Can’t Help Knowing About Brooklin,” Says
Unofficial Historian
When
the Wooden Boat School in Brooklin brings in new students each
summer, June Eaton gets the call to come impart the local lore.
Eaton is the
Brooklin’s part-time assistant librarian, its unofficial
historian and one of the founding members of the Brooklin
Keeping Society.
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100 Years Ago, Brooklin Had Nine Schools
There is no high school in Brooklin—but there is a very rich
tradition of schooling there. One hundred years ago, Brooklin
flourished as a place where fisheries, canneries and
boatbuilding kept the waterfront busy. For the workers’
families, there were as many as nine one-room grammar schools
scattered throughout the town.
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photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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Acreage: 11,883
Population, 2000: 841
Population, 1990: 785
Population 19 years old and younger, 2000: 198
Median age: 45.9
School: Brooklin School
Library: Friend Memorial Public Library
Churches: Baptist (1)
Town meeting: First Saturday in April
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They
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“The town
can really get behind something and work together beautifully.”
—June Eaton,
Brooklin Keeping Society
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1763: First settlers arrived
from
Massachusetts.
1778:
Battle of
Naskeag when British landed a sloop with 60 men at Naskeag Point.
1849:
Breaks
away from Sedgwick and becomes its own town. First incorporated as Port
Watson, with 1,002 residents in 164 houses.
1874:
Town is
manufacturing 30,000 gallons of porgy and herring oil.
1897:
First
Brooklin High School built.
Late 1800s:
Summer colonies starting with tourists and summer residents.
1902:
First
library is established.
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