Fort Andross, also known as Fort George and Cabot Mill, originally was a historic
trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.
Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...
and
garrison built by the
colonial
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British Empire
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to fortify against the
Wabanaki Native Americans who were aligned with
France
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during
King William's War
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(1688–1697). It was adjacent to
Brunswick Falls
Brunswick Falls, also known as Pejepscot Falls, is an ancient section of the Androscoggin River, bordering the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine. First occupied by Paleoindians and the Wabanaki Native Americans, the falls were a plentif ...
on the
Androscoggin River
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in
Brunswick, Maine
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. In the 19th century, the location of the fort has been used for several
cotton mill
A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.
Although some were driven b ...
s including the
Cabot Manufacturing Company. In 1986, the mills were transformed into office and retail space and named the Fort Andross Mill Complex.
Trading post and forts
Trading post
In the year 1620, a
charter was granted by
King James of
England
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to forty
noblemen
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,
knight
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s, and gentlemen, calling themselves the
Plymouth Company
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. Their territory extended from the fourteenth to the forty-eighth parallel of latitude, and from sea to sea. The council, on June 16, 1632, granted a patent to
Thomas Purchase
Thomas Purchase (1577–1678), also known as Thomas Purchis and Thomas Purchas, was the first English settler to occupy the region of Pejepscot, Maine in what is now Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell. In 1628 he set up a trading post at th ...
and his
brother-in-law
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''George Way''. Purchase had settled in the area, four years prior, in 1628, setting up a trading post to buy and sell goods, mainly
salmon
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,
sturgeon and furs along the Androscoggin River. The site was adjacent to a waterfall known then as
Pejepscot Falls, in what is now, Brunswick, Maine. The Wabanaki Native Americans referred to this area of Brunswick,
Topsham and
Harpswell Maine as
Pejepscot which translates to
long, rocky rapids part
.
In , the settlements in Pejepscot were burned by the French and there native allies during
King Philip's War
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and Purchase fled to
Boston
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.
Fort Andross
In 1688, Fort Andross was the first
fortification
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on the banks of the Androscoggin River and controlled by the
British Empire
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.
After King Philip's War and during
King William's War
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,
Governor Edmund Andros of the
Dominion of New England
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, who desired the promotion of eastern settlements, came to Pejepscot in the midwinter of . Andros with an army of 1,000 men, built a new fort on the occasion that the Wabanaki Native Americans would attack the area, as it was a highly sought after location for
fishing
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and
hunting
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. The location of the fort is in the same location as the preceding trading post owned by ''Thomas Purchase''. Fort Andross was under the
command
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of Lieutenant Colonel McGregory and
Major Thomas Savage; it was destroyed during King William's War by the French and their Wabanaki allies in .
Although Fort Andross was
named after Governor Edmund Andros, it is not known as to why the spelling changed, adding an extra
S
at the end. In 1878, the
Wheeler brothers wrote a book titled ''The History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine''. This book is, what the
Pejepscot Historical Society The Pejepscot History Center (formerly known as but legally retaining the name of Pejepscot Historical Society), located in Brunswick, is the fourth oldest historical society in the state of Maine. Founded in 1888, the society's mission is to prese ...
states as,
the authoritative text on the three towns through .
There are several notations of the fort where it is spelled both with one
S
,
and with two.
Fort George
After
Queen Anne's War
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, a new Fort was built in 1715 by
Captain John Gyles on the ruins of Fort Andross. This fort was named Fort George, named after
King George I of Great Britain
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. The fort was underground with a wall base, standing high above ground, laid with
lime mortar
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. The
barracks housed fifteen men. A large two story dwelling house, appearing above the walls and a
cannon
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protecting the local
settler
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A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer.
Settl ...
s.
During the span of Fort George (1715–1736), many local proprietors of the Lands in Brunswick and Topsham volunteered as soldiers to garrison the Fort.
Given the many
Native American wars that were fought in the area, the inhabitants of Brunswick and Topsham would gather within the walls of the fort whenever they felt unsafe. Oppositely, there were times when trade ran fluidly amongst the natives.
As the series of wars were beginning to end in the region, the
government of Massachusetts
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deemed it unnecessary to retain the fort any longer, even though earlier in the year, ''Adam Hunter'', of Topsham Maine, received a
commission as
Captain, with the authority to raise an independent company.
In 1736, the
General Court of Massachusetts
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decided to dismantle Fort George. A petition was sent to the legislature, by the inhabitants of Brunswick and Topsham, asking for the fort to remain. The petition was denied. The property was reverted to the proprietors who leased it, together with all the buildings and land connected with it, to George Harwood. He occupied the premises until November 1, 1761.
At a meeting of the
Pejepscot Proprietors
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, held in 1761, Belcher Noyes (
Municipal clerk
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) was instructed to execute a
deed of the old fort, with the buildings and land belonging to it, and the privilege of the stream at the falls, half to
Jeremiah Moulton, Esquire, the other half to Captain David Dunning, for the sum of one hundred thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence. Noyes gave Harwood a written order to surrender the fort and buildings to either Moulton or Dunning.
The ruins of the fort, with some portions of the wall yet standing, were seen as late as 1802. The materials of the old fort were used in the construction of dwellings in Brunswick and Topsham. Some of the lime mortar from the fort was used for the foundations of these buildings.
Memorials
1810
To mark the location of both forts, in , three surveyors from the town of Brunswick, John Abbot, John Perry Jr. and Jacob Abbot, while
surveying Maine Street, drilled a hole into a rock in the ground and drove an iron bolt think, in diameter and in length. Technically not a memorial, as it was used for surveying purposes, the iron bolt was removed during the
Cabot Manufacturing Company expansion of 1891.
1930
![Fort Andross Marker close-up](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Fort_Andross_Marker_close-up.jpg)
Adjoining the stone fort built by Governor Andros in 1689, a
cemetery
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was used until the town was incorporated in 1739. There were
headstones marking the burial place of Benjamin Larrabee, agent of the Pejepscot proprietors, one of the commanders of Fort George, and the ancestor of the Larrabees living in this vicinity. There were also the gravestones of Robert and Andrew Dunning, who were killed by Native Americans at Mason's rock in Brunswick. The site of this cemetery was covered with mill buildings in the early 1800s.
In the year 1930, the
Daughters of the American Revolution, a
nonprofit organization
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, that promotes education and
patriotism, erected a
monument
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in honor of Fort Andross and Fort George, as well as respecting the place of burial of the Larrabees and Dunnings.
Mill factories
After Fort George was abandoned in 1736, seventy three years would pass before the site was once again occupied. There were several mills that inhabited the site from 1809 to the 1950s, manufacturing
cotton
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and
wool
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products.
Brunswick Cotton Manufacturing Company
The first factory built on the site of Fort Andross was established by the Brunswick Cotton Manufacturing Company, harnessing power from the Androscoggin River at Brunswick Falls. This was the first cotton mill to be built in Maine and only the sixth in the nation.
The company was incorporated March 4, 1809. Ezra Smith,
Governor William King (1820–1821), and Doctor Porter were among the proprietors. The company was formed for the manufacture of cotton
yarn
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, which was shipped to other mills to be made into
cloth
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. The mill did not prove a success, and the
shareholders lost all their
capital. The mill was a three-story,
gambrel
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roofed, wooden building, and stood next to Brunswick Falls on the ruins of Fort Andross and Fort George.
Maine Cotton and Woolen Factory Company
The second mill was that of the Maine Cotton and Woolen Factory Company, which was
incorporated in October 1812. The mill was made from wood and ''Deacon John Perry'' was the first agent.
In 1820 there were 1,248
cotton spindles in full operation, and 240 woollen spindles, nine woollen
looms, nine
carding machines and nine
fulling
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machines. of cotton cloth were made per season. About one hundred people were employed at that time but the mill was destroyed by a fire in 1825.
Soon after the fire, a mill for carding wool and dressing cloth was established by John Dyer. It was called the Eagle Factory and it stood at the end of the previous mill. It was removed in 1834.
The Brunswick Company
In 1834, The Brunswick Company was incorporated and bought the land. Among the corporators was the 11th governor of Maine,
Governor Robert P Dunlap (1843–1847) as well as members of the Dunning and McKean families. The new mill consisted of
granite
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, four stories high, long, capable of containing 5,120 spindles of cotton.
In total, aside from the Fort Andross site, the company had four additional mills of equal size, two dwelling houses, three stories high, one store, a
counting room, stone picker-house, cotton store, and a
forging-shop, all completely finished, with all but four situated in Brunswick. They also occupied the whole breadth of the Androscoggin River with islands and dams, thirteen and a half acres of land in Brunswick and Topsham, and
Hydropower
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sufficient to have as many saws and spindles of cotton machinery as there was space.
The Brunswick Company ran this factory until 1840, when they leased it to Mr. Allen Colby, who managed it until March 1843, when it was sold at
auction
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in
Boston, Massachusetts to Whitwell, Seaver, & Co., for $34,400. The original cost was about $190,000. Whitwell, Seaver, & Co. entrusted the management of it to Messrs A.P. Kimball and John Dunning Coburn, of Boston, who soon afterwards purchased it. The company, after carrying on with business for a few years, failed.
On July 3, 1847, the Warumbo Manufacturing Company (not to be confused with
Worumbo Mill in
Lisbon Falls, Maine
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) was incorporated and the
stock of the Brunswick Company, consisting of
mortgages
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from the previous owners, was bought for $40,000. The company was organized in the summer of 1848, but a few years later, it also failed.
Cabot Manufacturing Company
![Cabot Mill 1920 Winding Room](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Cabot_Mill_1920_Winding_Room.jpg)
In 1853 the Cabot Company, of the
Cabot family
The Cabot family was part of the Boston Brahmin, also known as the "first families of Boston".
History
Family origin
The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot (born 1680 in Jersey, a British Crown Dependencies and one of the C ...
from Boston, Massachusetts, bought the factory. Due to a large amount of debt and a number of the
shareholders
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failing to pay their assessments, it was sold at auction in 1857. A number of the former owners bought up the stock and re-organized under the name of The Cabot Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $400,000.
In 1857 the company had two hundred and thirty-five looms. There were 9,000 spindles at work; the mill gave employment to one hundred and seventy-five employees, and turned out 50,000 yards of cotton per week.
In 1865 an addition to the building of was made on the east side and on the west side, making two wings on the ends. In 1867 the mill had 26,000 spindles. The company owned thirty acres of land on the two sides of the river and seventy-five
tenement
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s, and made its own
gas
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A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or ...
, which it also supplied to the town. In 1877 the capital stock was $600,000; the number of spindles, 35,000; the number of employees was five hundred and fifty. The buildings of the company were a factory, office, storehouse, store, and one hundred tenements.
In 1891 the Cabot Manufacturing company asked, and was granted access to the town owned lot within feet (meters) of their mill for the purpose of expansion. This small lot is where the
memorial of the old ''Fort George'' stood. The addition was long and wide and four stories high, putting the capacity of spindles up to 65,000 with 900 employees.
![Cabot Mill 1920 Mule Spinning Room](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Cabot_Mill_1920_Mule_Spinning_Room.jpg)
After the
American Civil War
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ended in 1865, Brunswick saw an influx of
French Canadians looking for work. In response to this demand, the Cabot mill built tenement housing for the new force of
Franco-American workers. These tenements were located on Mill Street within walking distance of the mill.
On August 12, 1881, Franco-American children as young as seven years old went on strike and the mill had to shut down for three days. The striking children were offered one penny more an hour, the same pay as the nearby
Bates Mill
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, in the neighboring town of
Lewiston. A few days later, the adults, knowing of the success of their children, banned together and went on strike as well. A few days after the strike, Benjamin Greene, the face of the Cabot Manufacturing Company in town, gave a 30 day's Notice to Vacate to the residents in the company-owned tenements.
In 1885, when a
diphtheria
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epidemic
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Epidemics of infectious ...
raced through the Brunswick's Franco-American population, the State of Maine ordered the Cabot Manufacturing Company to clean up the tenements it had neglected.
In 1942 the Cabot Manufacturing Company sold the factory to the Verney Corporation who called the mill Verney Brunswick Mills. This would be the last mill to occupy the site first built in 1809. The Verney Brunswick Mill was used for cotton, rayon and
shoe
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manufacturing and concluded operations in 1955.
Industrial Buildings
Lewis Industrial Building
In 1955 the Gera Corporation bought the mill from the Verney Corporation but quickly sold it to George Lewis, a Portland realty developer and food wholesaler who bought the old mill at a cost of $500,000 and named it the Lewis Industrial Building.
Among the tenants of the Lewis Industrial Building was the Auerbach Shoe Company.
In 1968, Auerbach Shoe was ranked tenth for footwear manufacturers in all of
New England
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selling women's and children's boots.
During the
1970s gas crisis, Auerbach Shoe was experiencing a shortage of vinyl, a
petroleum
Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...
derivative. in 1974 Auerbach went through a
slack period
, which was supposed to be temporary, but the plant never reopened.
The following year a
lawsuit was filed on behalf of the employees who lost their
pensions.
It was standard practice for small independent shoe manufacturers to close over the December holidays. A full two and one-half months after the time when annual operations were normally resumed, management still publicly claimed that the layoff was merely seasonal. They closed in December 1973 and never resumed operations.
Fort Andross
![Fort Andross Mill Complex](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Fort_Andross_Mill_Complex.jpg)
In the 1980s the old mill was briefly used for storage by
Bath Iron Works
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,
but the building was in disrepair.
In 1986 Coleman P. Burke of
New York City
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, founder and managing partner of Waterfront Maine (North River Company), purchased the land and mill building at auction. Due to the non-use of the structure, 857 windows had to be replaced before it could be rented for retail and office space.
Coming full circle, the name of the building was changed to Fort Andross, reflecting the original fort that occupied the site in 1688.
Notes
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:b.
See also
*
Pejepscot Historical Society The Pejepscot History Center (formerly known as but legally retaining the name of Pejepscot Historical Society), located in Brunswick, is the fourth oldest historical society in the state of Maine. Founded in 1888, the society's mission is to prese ...
References
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