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Welcome to the Westbrook Home page. The Westbrook Home page provides as much information as possible on Westbrook. Knowing Westbrook’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Westbrook’s Home page, you will also find Westbrook’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Westbrook has a population of 18935. 47.5% of Westbrook’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 46.8% of Westbrook is married and 64.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $240,848, and the average rent is $1,076. Household median income in Westbrook is $71,183, and the individual median income is $35,870. Westbrook’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.5%), Black(4.6%), Multiple(2%), Asian(1.5%), Hispanic(1.5%), Other(1.1%), Native(0.3%).


Originally known as Saccarappa after Saccarappa Falls on the Presumpscot River, it was a part of Falmouth until February 14, 1814, when it was set off and incorporated as Stroudwater. It soon changed its name to Westbrook after Colonel Thomas Westbrook, a commander during Father Rale's War and King's mast agent who was an early settler and mill operator.


In 1871, the town of Westbrook amicably split into two municipalities; the current Westbrook and Deering, which was then annexed by Portland in 1898. In 1891, Westbrook was incorporated as a city.Saccarappa Falls and Congin Falls provided water power for early mills within the city. In 1829, a sawmill was built at the former which made the mill town noted for its lumber.


Other industries followed, manufacturing grain bags, machinery and water wheels, carriage and harness, boots, shoes and moccasins, tinware, leather board, bricks, wooden boxes, box shook, meal and flour. The Portland Manufacturing Company built a cotton textile mill at Saccarappa Falls for making "sheetings, stripes and ducks." A paper mill was built at Cumberland Mills, once an Indian planting ground known as Ammoncongin.


By 1859, it produced 1,000 tons of paper annually. In 1867, the factory's name would change to the S. D. Warren Paper Mill.The Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832, connecting Portland to Harrison by way of Westbrook and Sebago Lake. It was the primary commercial shipping route for goods until 1871, when it was rendered obsolete by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad.


Remnants of the canal can still be seen throughout the city, including Beaver Pond, along Stroudwater Street near the Maine Turnpike overpass, and in the woods between Westbrook High School and Oxford-Cumberland Canal Elementary School. In 1885, the city opened Woodlawn Cemetery, the largest cemetery and newest burial grounds in the municipality.


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