Editing Falmouth, Maine

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'''Falmouth''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ɔː|l|m|ə|θ}} {{respell|FAWL|məth}}) is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Cumberland County, Maine]], United States. The population was 12,444 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US2300524495|title=Census - Geography Profile: Falmouth town, Cumberland County, Maine|access-date=January 11, 2022}}</ref> It is part of the [[Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area]].

A northern suburb of Portland, Falmouth borders [[Casco Bay]] and offers one of the largest anchorages in Maine. The town is home to three private golf clubs and the Portland Yacht Club.

==History==
{{see also|Portland, Maine#History}}

=== Native Americans ===

Native Americans followed receding glaciers into Maine around 11,000 [[Common Era|BCE]]. At the time of European contact in the sixteenth century, people speaking a western dialect of the [[Abenaki|Wabanaki]] language inhabited present-day Falmouth. Captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]] observed a semi-autonomous [[Band society|band]]  known as the Aucocisco living in [[Casco Bay]]. English explorer [[Christopher Levett]] met with the Aucocisco [[Sachem|Sagamore]] Skittery Gusset at his summer village at the [[Presumpscot River|Presumpscot Falls]] in 1623.

A combination of warfare and disease decimated Native peoples in the years before English colonization, creating a shatter zone of devastation and political instability in what would become southern Maine. The introduction of European wares in the 1500s reoriented long-standing Native trade relationships in the [[Gulf of Maine]]. Warfare soon broke out among groups such as the [[Mi'kmaq]] and [[Penobscot]] who sought to subjugate their neighbors by monopolizing access to European goods. The arrival of foreign pathogens only served to compound the upheaval in the region. A particularly notorious epidemic between 1614 and 1620 ravaged the population of coastal [[New England]] with mortality rates at upwards of 90 percent. Native peoples were not totally destroyed however, maintaining a visible presence in the Casco Bay area until [[King George's War]] in the 1740s. French military defeats and increasing settler migration to the area from the southern [[New England Colonies]] impelled most Native Americans to assimilate into British colonial society, migrate toward the protection of [[French Canada|New France]] or further up the coast where they remain today.<ref>Bruce J. Borque, Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 16; Emerson W. Baker, “Finding the Almouchiquois: Native American Families, Territories, and Land Sales in Southern Maine,” Ethnohistory 51, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 73-100; Christopher Levett, A Voyage into New England: Begun in 1623, and Ended in 1624 (London: 1628); David L. Ghere, "The 'Disappearance of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political Organization and Ethnocentric Assumptions," American Indian Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 193–207.</ref>

=== New Casco (1630–1765) ===

Falmouth's original bounds encompassed the present day cities of Portland, South Portland, Westbrook and Cape Elizabeth. Today’s town was known as New Casco, and was only a neighborhood within the larger collection of communities around Casco Bay centered in what is downtown Portland. Falmouth’s early years were marked by extreme violence as it lay on a borderland zone between Europeans and Native Americans. Casco Bay represented the northernmost point of British colonial settlement on the east coast until 1713. Numerous wars between 1675–1763 among the British, French, and Native Americans rarely left Falmouth unscathed from the violence. English colonists twice abandoned Casco Bay altogether under pressure from French and Indian attacks in 1676 and 1690.

[[File:Fort New Casco.jpg|rendering of Fort Casco in 1705|thumb|left|250px]]

The first European resident was Arthur Mackworth, who lived on the east bank of the Presumpscot River as early as 1630. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] took political control of Maine in 1658 from the heirs of [[Ferdinando Gorges|Sir Ferdinando Gorges]], they renamed the area Falmouth after an important [[Pendennis Castle|Parliamentarian victory]] in the [[English Civil War]]. Colloquially known as "Falmouth in Casco Bay" to distinguish it from [[Falmouth, MA|Falmouth, Massachusetts]] on Cape Cod, it was the 7th town in the recently formed [[Province of Maine]], later being formally incorporated on November 12, 1718.<ref name=Coolidge>{{Cite book  | last = Coolidge  | first = Austin J.|author2=John B. Mansfield  | title = A History and Description of New England| publisher = A.J. Coolidge  | year = 1859| location = Boston, Massachusetts| pages = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n157 123]–124| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ| quote = coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.  }} [https://books.google.com/books?id=4WjGkuhZyaoC&dq=portland+maine+pendennis&pg=PA10 Joseph Conforti, "Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England;" Lebanon, New Hampshire 2005, 9-12].</ref>

One of the earliest structures in the town of Falmouth was a [[palisade]]d fort and [[trading post]] named [[Fort Casco]] built in 1698 at the conclusion of [[King William's War]]. The location of the fort can be found today opposite Pine Grove Cemetery on Route 88. Massachusetts built the fort at the behest of local Abenaki desiring a convenient place to trade and repair tools and weapons. A 1701 meeting between the Wabanaki leaders and Massachusetts officials cemented an alliance between the two. A pair of stone cairns were then erected to symbolize the new partnership. The nearby Two Brothers Islands later received their name from this now long-forgotten monument.<ref>Emerson W. Baker, “Formerly Machegonne, Dartmouth, York, Stogummor, Casco, and Falmouth: Portland as a Contested Frontier in the Seventeenth Century,” in Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England, ed. Joseph A. Conforti (Lebanon, NH, 2005), 1–19; "Memorial of Propositions made with the Eastern Indians," Documentary History of the State of Maine (1907), 10:87–95.</ref>

Unfortunately, this peace would last less than three years, with the inauguration of [[Queen Anne's War]] in 1702. Governor [[Joseph Dudley]] held a [[Treaty of Casco (1703)|conference]] at New Casco with representatives of the [[Abenaki]] tribes on June 20, 1703, trying to convince them not to ally with the French. His efforts were unsuccessful, as the fort was besieged only two months later by Abenaki Sagamores Moxus, Wanungonet, [[Nescambious|Assacombuit]] and their [[Kingdom of France|French]] Allies during the [[Northeast Coast Campaign (1703)|Northeast Coast Campaign]].  The arrival of the Massachusetts ship ''Province Galley'' relieved the fort by dispersing the Wabanaki and the some 500 French with its guns. Peace returned in 1713 with the [[Treaty of Portsmouth (1713)|Treaty of Portsmouth]]. When the resettlement of present-day Portland began in 1716, the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Province of Massachusetts]] ordered that the fort at New Casco be demolished rather than maintain it.<ref>John G. Reid, “Notes and Comments: Unorthodox Warfare in the Northeast, 1703,” Canadian Historical Review 74, no. 3 (1992): 211–20.; Baker, “Formerly Machegonne," 1–19.</ref>

New Casco was not permanently settled by British colonists until the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham|fall of Quebec]] in 1759 permanently removed the threat of French and Indian attacks. Living so far away from Portland was dangerous: only one family lived in the town in 1725. An Indian raid in 1745 and the murder of Job Burnal in 1751 represented the risks colonists undertook to live in the area.  The majority of the first permanent European inhabitants to the town came after 1740, quickly growing to "62 families" and forming their own parish in 1753 (currently the Falmouth Congregational Church). The population of Falmouth would hover between 1,000 and 2,000 residents for the next two centuries.  These residents engaged in farming, fishing, and harvesting [[Mast (sailing)|masts]]. Mills on the Presumpscot River, [[Piscataqua River (Presumpscot River)|Piscataqua River]] in West Falmouth, and Mussel Cove powered sawmills, processed agricultural products, and manufactured finished goods by the 1800s.<ref>W. M. Willis, Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith and the Rev. Samuel Deane (Portland, ME: 1849),54, 59–60; http://falmouthcongregationalchurch.org/history/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211185523/http://falmouthcongregationalchurch.org/history/ |date=February 11, 2015 }}; Charlotte Donald Wallace, E Pluribus Unum: a Story of Falmouth, Maine (Falmouth, ME: Falmouth Historical Society, 1976), 19.</ref>

=== Modern Falmouth ===

In 1765 Cape Elizabeth (then including South Portland) seceded from Falmouth. In 1786, Portland broke away, followed in 1814 by Westbrook, although boundaries between it and Falmouth were readjusted throughout the nineteenth century. Logistics were the reason these separations. Population had grown by the 1760s to the extent that separate church parishes had formed, creating rival communities more attuned to local concerns.  People also complained about the distance between outer areas and the center of the town in present-day Portland.  By 1859, [[fishing]] and [[farming]] were principal trades. Other industries included three [[shipbuilding|shipbuilders]], three [[brickmaking|brickmakers]], a [[sawmill]], [[gristmill]] and [[Tanning (leather)|tannery]]. In 1886, the town also produced [[boot]]s, [[shoemaking|shoes]], [[tinware]] and [[carriage]] stock.<ref>W. W. Clayton, History of Cumberland Co., Maine (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880), 269–77.</ref>

[[File:Underwood Casino, Falmouth Foreside, ME.jpg|Underwood Spring Park in 1906|thumb|190px]]
The extension of trolley service from Portland to the Falmouth Foreside in 1898 initiated the town's transformation from a rural community to an urban consumer society. Trolleys cemented Falmouth’s economic connection to Portland and transformed the Foreside neighborhood into a relaxation spot for nearby city dwellers. Portland’s Yankee elites relocated the Portland Yacht Club and Portland Country Club to Falmouth in 1885 and 1913 respectively, where they have remained ever since. To promote its line, the [[Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway Company]] opened [[Underwood Spring Park]] north of Town Landing in 1899. The park’s attractions included a casino, hotel, and outdoor theater. Fire destroyed Underwood Spring Park in 1907 and was not rebuilt. The [[Portland–Lewiston Interurban]] also ran up today’s Route 100 in West Falmouth. People’s growing preference for the automobile spelled the end for trolleys, which ended service in 1933.<ref>Edwin B. Robertson, Remember the Portland Maine Trolleys (1982)</ref>

In 1943, [[Percival Proctor Baxter]] donated [[Mackworth Island]] to the state as a [[wildlife refuge]]; today it is site of the state school for the deaf and hard of hearing.<ref>Soares, Liz. ''All for Maine: The Story of Governor Percival P. Baxter''. Windswept House Publishers (1996). {{ISBN|1-883650-17-8}}</ref>

The advent of the automobile accelerated Falmouth's transition toward becoming a residential suburb of [[Portland, Maine|Portland]]. Military personnel who moved to the town while Casco Bay was base Sail for America’s destroyer fleet from 1941 to 1944 bolstered much of this growth. Like many urban areas in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, the automobile, cheaper residential taxes, and the desire for open space channeled an urban exodus away from cities like Portland into neighboring towns such as Falmouth. In the span of fifty years the town’s population has skyrocketed from five thousand to over ten thousand residents today. Falmouth’s location on the ocean, along with its respected public school system, has made it one of the more attractive communities in Greater Portland. This demand consequently led developers to construct two additional country clubs in 1986 and 1988. The nature of such enclosed neighborhoods and other high-scale subdivisions like it has only recently turned the town into one of the most affluent in Maine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org/listsandlinks/facts/populatio |title=Falmouth Maine Population Statistics {{!}} Falmouth Memorial Library |website=www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121220075555/http://www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org/listsandlinks/facts/populatio |archive-date=December 20, 2012}}</ref>

<gallery>
File:West Falmouth Manufacturing Company.png|West Falmouth Manufacturing Company, 1880.
File:West Falmouth 1880.png|Downtown West Falmouth, 1880.
File:Portland Yacht Club House c 1894.JPG|Portland Yacht Club House {{circa|1894}}
File:Covered Bridge on Presumpscot River, Falmouth, ME.jpg|Presumpscot River {{circa|1910}}
File:View of West Falmouth, ME.jpg|West Falmouth in 1917
</gallery>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|36.34|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|29.38|sqmi|sqkm|2}}  is land and {{convert|6.96|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name ="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer2010.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=December 16, 2012}}</ref> Located beside [[Casco Bay]], the [[Gulf of Maine]] and [[Atlantic Ocean]], Falmouth is drained by the [[Presumpscot River]].

The town is crossed by [[Interstate 95 in Maine|Interstate 95]] and [[Interstate 295 (Maine)|295]], [[U.S. Route 1 in Maine|U. S. Route 1]] and state routes [[Maine State Route 9|9]], [[Maine State Route 26|26]], 88 and [[Maine State Route 100|100]]. It borders the towns of [[Cumberland, Maine|Cumberland]] to the northeast, [[Westbrook, Maine|Westbrook]] and [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] to the southwest, and [[Windham, Maine|Windham]] to the northwest. There are two [[census-designated place]]s occupying the eastern portion of the town: [[Falmouth (CDP), Maine|Falmouth CDP]] to the south, and [[Falmouth Foreside, Maine|Falmouth Foreside]] to the north.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1790= 2994
|1800= 3422
|1810= 4105
|1820= 1679
|1830= 1966
|1840= 2071
|1850= 2157
|1860= 1935
|1870= 1730
|1880= 1622
|1890= 1580
|1900= 1511
|1910= 1488
|1920= 1542
|1930= 2041
|1940= 2883
|1950= 4342
|1960= 5976
|1970= 6291
|1980= 6853
|1990= 7610
|2000= 10310
|2010= 11185
|2020= 12444
|footnote=Sources:<ref>Moses Greenleaf, A Survey of the State of Maine (1829), 145; Public Documents of the State of Maine (1842), 101, 109; http://www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org/research/locallinks/population {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627191606/http://www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org/research/locallinks/population |date=June 27, 2015 }}</ref>
}}
{{See also|Falmouth Foreside, Maine}}
As of 2000 the median income for a household in the town was $66,855, and the median income for a family was $87,304. Males had a median income of $54,545 versus $35,258 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $36,716.  About 1.8% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 3.2% of those under age 18 and 4.7% of those age 65 or over.

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=December 16, 2012}}</ref> of 2010, there were 11,185 people, 4,334 households, and 3,063 families residing in the town. The [[population density]] was {{convert|380.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 4,751 housing units at an average density of {{convert|161.7|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the town was 95.4% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.5% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 2.3% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.4% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.2% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.3% of the population.

There were 4,334 households, of which 36.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 29.3% were non-families. 24.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.05.

The median age in the town was 45.3 years. 25.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.2% were from 25 to 44; 33.6% were from 45 to 64; and 16.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 47.9% male and 52.1% female.

==Sites of interest==
* Falmouth Historical Society & Museum
* [[Falmouth Memorial Library]]
* Falmouth Nature Preserve
* [[Gilsland Farm|Gilsland Farm Audubon Center]]
* Mackworth Island Public Reserved Land
* Maine State Ballet Theatre
* Governor Baxter School for the Deaf
* [[Falmouth High School (Maine)|Falmouth High School]]

==Education==

Until June 2011, the town had a K–12 school system that included four individual school buildings. Lunt School included grades K–2 followed by Plummer-Motz which contained grades 3–4. Falmouth Middle School incorporated grades 5–8 and Falmouth High School contained grades 9–12. A new building, Falmouth Elementary School, opened in the fall of 2011. It was dedicated on September 17, 2011. The new elementary school contains grades K–5, replacing both Lunt School and Plummer-Motz.  Falmouth Middle School now contains grades 6–8. The School Department is under the jurisdiction of the Falmouth School Board with participation of the Leadership Council and Superintendent of the Schools. Falmouth sports teams were known as the Yachtsmen until 2021, when the school board voted to change the nickname to the Navigators, citing concerns with gender bias and elitism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/28/falmouth-high-to-drop-its-yachtsmen-nickname-and-mascot/ |title=Falmouth High to drop its Yachtsmen nickname and mascot |date=April 28, 2021|website=[[Portland Press Herald]]}}</ref>

The Falmouth School Department is considered well above average by Maine state standards.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wmtw.com/article/new-rankings-these-are-the-best-school-districts-in-maine-2020/28697608 |title=New rankings: These are the best school districts in Maine |date=August 16, 2019 |website=[[WMTW (TV)|WMTW]] |access-date=December 21, 2019}}</ref> Falmouth was named the "Top City to Live and Learn" by ''[[Forbes]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2011/04/25/best-schools-for-real-estate-buck.html|title=The Best Schools for Your Real Estate Buck|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>

==Public amenities==
Mackworth Island was donated by former Governor Percival Baxter.  The Baxter School for the Deaf occupies the center of the island and the remainder is a State park accessible to the public, with an oceanside walking trail around the perimeter.  Clapboard Island, located a mile off Falmouth Town Land and accessible by kayak and canoe, includes a nature preserve administered by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.  The Family Ice Center, a nonprofit ice skating facility, is "Southern Maine’s premier year round ice skating and community center," according to its website.

== Notable people ==
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* [[Mary Cunningham Agee]], business executive
* [[William Cranch Bond]], astronomer
* [[Cathy Breen]], Maine state legislator
* [[Joseph Cummings]], president of [[Wesleyan University]] (1857–1875), president of [[Northwestern University]] (1881–1890)
* [[Gerald Davis (politician)|Gerald Davis]], state legislator
* [[Rob Derhak]], musician
* [[Frank Fixaris]], sportscaster 
* [[G Hannelius]], actress
* [[Gabe Hoffman-Johnson]], soccer player and Founder of the [[Portland Hearts of Pine]]
* [[Roger Levesque]], retired soccer player for the [[Seattle Sounders FC]]
* [[Mercy Lewis]], accuser during the [[Salem witch trials]]
* [[Helen Longley]], former First Lady of Maine
* [[Amy Kuhn]], state legislator and resident of Falmouth
* [[Bob Marley (comedian)|Bob Marley]], comedian
* [[John R. McKernan Jr.]], US congressman, 71st [[List of Governors of Maine|governor of Maine]]<ref name="Senator Olympia J. Snowe">{{cite web|url=http://www.uma.edu/mwhof-osnowe.html |title=Senator Olympia J. Snowe |publisher=University of Maine at Augusta |access-date=May 24, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205235859/http://www.uma.edu/mwhof-osnowe.html |archive-date=December 5, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[John Menario]], Portland city manager and candidate for Governor of Maine
* [[Gary Merrill]], actor
* [[Stanley C. Norton]], U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and Navy Cross recipient 
* [[Joan Whitney Payson]], philanthropist, noted art collector
* [[David D. Pearce]], US ambassador to [[Algeria]]
* [[Sheri Piers]], distance runner
* [[Richard Rockefeller]], physician, great-grandson of [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]]
* [[Olympia Snowe]], US senator<ref name="Senator Olympia J. Snowe"/>
* [[Scott Wilson (judge)|Scott Wilson]], appellate judge

==Popular culture==
Falmouth has been featured in several short stories and novels by author [[Stephen King]], including [[One for the Road (short story)|"One for the Road"]], "[[Jerusalem's Lot]]", and most notably in ''[['Salem's Lot]]''.<ref name=Spignesi>{{Cite book  | last = Spignesi | first = Stephen J.| title = The Essential Stephen King | year = 2003| location = Franklin Lakes, New Jersey| page = 214| isbn = 9781564147103| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=134fGRDDangC&q='Salem's+Lot+Falmouth&pg=PA214}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* [https://www.falmouthme.org Official '''Town of Falmouth''' website]
* [https://www.falmouthmemoriallibrary.org Falmouth Memorial Library]
* [https://www.falmouthschools.org Falmouth School Department]
* [https://www.maine.gov/local/town.php?t=Falmouth Maine.gov – Falmouth, Maine]
* [http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=18722 Modern rendering of 1753 Falmouth map from the Maine Memory Network]
* [http://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_place_record.asp?place=falmouth Maine Genealogy: Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine]
* [https://archive.org/stream/acg3054.0002.006.umich.edu#page/37/mode/1up Block and Garrison Houses at Ancient Falmouth]

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