Great Works River
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The Great Works River is about 27 miles (43 kilometres) long in southwestern Maine in the United States. It rises in central York County, flows generally south past North Berwick to meet the tidal part of the Salmon Falls River at South Berwick.
Once called the Asbenbedick River, the Great Works River takes its present name from a sawmill erected in 1652 at Assabumbadoc Falls. Established by Richard Leader, who was granted exclusive right to water power, the "Great mill workes" had 18 saws.
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- George J. Varney, History of South Berwick, ME; A Gazetteer of the State of Maine (1886); B. B. Russell, Publisher; Boston, MA
