Mill Creek (Falmouth Foreside)
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Mill Creek (formerly known as Felt's Brook) is a watercourse in
Falmouth Foreside, Maine Falmouth Foreside is a census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Falmouth in Cumberland County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 1,511. It is part of the Portland– South Portland–Bidde ...
, United States. It is crossed, near its mouth at inner
Casco Bay Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States. Its easternmost approach is Cape Small and its westernmost approach is Two Lights in Cape Elizabeth. The city of Portland sits along its south ...
, by State Route 88 — known as Foreside Road (formerly Atlantic Highway) in that section. A plaster mill formerly stood directly south of this crossing, at the end of today's Old Mill Road, for 140 years. The brook was originally named for English immigrant
George Felt George Felt (February 28, 1601 – ) was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies. He is considered a founder of the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, and is one of the three main early settlers of North Yarmouth, Massachuset ...
, who was a large landowner in the area in the 17th century.''Captain Walter Gendall, of North Yarmouth, Maine: A Biographical Sketch'', Doctor Charles E. Banks (1880)
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- johnsonfamilystories.blogspot.com
Mill Creek Preserve is nearby.


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{{reflist Falmouth, Maine Rivers of Cumberland County, Maine