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Kennebunk ME Community Profile & History
Kennebunk, Maine is a small coastal community in southwestern Maine. First settled circa 1650, Kennebunk was originally part of the town of Wells. The community was formally incorporated as Kennebunk in 1820.
By 1835 Kennebunk had four distinct centers: Mousam Village on the turnpike, where local entrepreneurs had built a cotton mill; the Kennebunk Landing village, which had grown up around the shipbuilding industry; Lower Village at the mouth of the Kennebunk River, where the wharves used by vessels once involved in the West Indies trade and now by coasting vessels were located; and the Plains-Alewive farming district.
As early as 1825, the water power of the Mousam River was recognized by a new generation of local men as a valuable economic resource. In 1825 a corporation called the Kennebunk Manufacturing Company erected two dams on the Mousam River in preparation for building a cotton mill. This unsuccessful enterprise was followed in 1832 by the Mousam Manufacturing Company, which succeeded in building a cotton factory.
These early cotton factories were followed by others producing thread and twine, as well as manufacturers of doors, sashes, and blinds; shoe laces; shoes and shoe counters; felt boots; leatheroid (similated leather) lunch boxes, trunks, etc,; matting; and fiber board.
The 1970s and 1980s brought significant changes in housing types and development patterns. The population of Kennebunk is no longer concentrated in and around its village centers, having spread along roadways to all corners of the community. Kennebunk now has its share of condominiums, large-lot single family housing developments, and has seen the adaptation of residences to commercial use. The increasing year-round population and healthy growth of tourism has fueled new commercial and residential development in Kennebunk.
While manufacturing as it once existed has declined, a revitalization of Kennebunk's Main Street village has brought adaptive use to its surviving factory building and contributed to the town's enduring prosperity.
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