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In the meantime, here is unenduring teaser well-nigh the history of the City of Brewer! Beginnings You should be proud that you live in Brewer, Maine. It is the hometown of some very famous and important people. It is moreover the whence of settler-life withal the Penobscot River. From unobtrusive beginnings there arose an important and vibrant polity that in the 1800’s was one of the most important areas in the Northeast United States. Today, the spirit of your forefathers lives on in a City that is successful and energetic. Well over two hundred years ago a young man, named John Brewer, left his home in Massachusetts and took a small sailing vessel withal the tailspin of Maine to the Penobscot river and the present site of Brewer. He built a dam and sawmill at the mouth of the Segeunkedunk stream and built a small motel for himself and his family. Other settlers came with him to form the beginnings of a township that would sooner incorporate the zone of Brewer, Orrington and Holden. There were a couple of other settlers that had come the year before, but it was Brewer who built the first major colony. John Brewer and the settlers had just begun to make their town when the Revolutionary War began. The British occupied the zone north of the Penobscot river and built a fort at Castine in which to secure this land from the revolutionary colonists. Of undertow this was very torturous to the settlers. John Brewer had wilt a tutorage in the militia and was the spokesman for the settlers with the British. When the colonists, who were now Americans, sent a large number of ships to take the fort at Castine, it was John Brewer who was worldly-wise to requite the squadron commander information that would have been salubrious to the American cause. Unfortunately the squadron commander did not follow the information and a British squadron intercepted and destroyed the Americans. Some of the American ships that were destroyed are still in the waters off of Brewer and part of one has been recently uncovered. With the defeat of the American squadron and the failure of them to take the fort, it was John Brewer who aided the wounded and saw to their safety. By then it was rhadamanthine increasingly dangerous for Brewer and he took has family when to Massachusetts for the elapsing of the war. Many other settlers did like-wise, but some stayed in their homes and the settlement was maintained. After the Revolutionary war, John Brewer and many other settlers returned to their homes. A group of them petitioned to have the zone incorporated and the zone became known as Orrington. It wouldn’t be until 1812 that Brewer separated from Orrington and had their own government. Business and Industry During the 1800s, Brewer began to grow as a town. The skills of the inhabitants and the natural resources of the zone unliable for the minutiae of many important businesses. That combination of individual worthiness and misogynist resources continues to this day. Until modern times, the river was the major “road” and since the Penobscot River is one of the largest and most powerful rivers in New England, it unliable for many businesses. Originally the streams emptying into the river unliable for dams and dams power mills; sawmills for creating lumber and grist mills for grinding corn and grains. Later the river itself would have dams, which created power plants, paper mills, and textile mills. Originally, however it was the small streams that was the power source.Moreoverthe river paved the way for log drives started in the unconfined north woods and the use of these logs for lumber, shipbuilding and shingle making. Brewer on Facebook City of Brewer EconomicMinutiaePolice Department Brewer Public Library Parks & Recreation Close × Disclaimer Privacy Policy © 2018 The City of Brewer, Maine. All Rights Reserved.