Mill Creek (Falmouth Foreside)

Mill Creek (formerly known as Felt's Brook) is a watercourse in Falmouth Foreside, Maine, United States.[1] It is crossed, near its mouth at inner Casco Bay, 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.[2][3]

Mill Creek
Felt's Brook
Looking east toward the mouth of the creek from beside Route 88
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMaine
TownFalmouth Foreside
Physical characteristics
MouthCasco Bay
  location
Falmouth Foreside, Maine, U.S.
  coordinates
43.7248221°N 70.2224324°W / 43.7248221; -70.2224324

The brook was originally named for English immigrant George Felt, who was a large landowner in the area in the 17th century.[4][5]

Mill Creek Preserve is nearby.[6]

References

  1. "Mill Creek Preserve". Falmouth Land Trust. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  2. "The old plaster mill at Felt's Brook". Cumberland Historical Society. May 16, 2023. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  3. Varney, George Jones (1881). A Gazetteer of the State of Maine. B. B. Russell. pp. 227–228.
  4. Captain Walter Gendall, of North Yarmouth, Maine: A Biographical Sketch, Doctor Charles E. Banks (1880) - HathiTrust
  5. "Saints, Witches, and Murderers" - johnsonfamilystories.blogspot.com
  6. "Mill Creek Preserve". Falmouth Land Trust. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
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