Berwick Academy is a college preparatory school located in South Berwick, Maine.

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1791_Building,_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg|The 1791 House is the original home of the school. Today is houses finance and facilities.

Jeppesen_Science_Center,_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg|Jeppesen Science Center

Jackson_Library_(sun),_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg|Jackson Library

Fogg_Memorial_Building_landscape,_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg|The Fogg Memorial Building, home to Upper School, was landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted

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Notable alumni and faculty

  • Ichabod Goodwin (1794–1882), 27th Governor of New Hampshire
  • Joseph McKean (academic) (1776–1818), Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, founder of Porcellian Club. Served as Berwick's second headmaster.
  • John Holmes Burleigh (1822–77), U.S. Congressman from Maine, namesake of the Burleigh-Davidson Building, his former home
  • John Noble Goodwin (1824–87) U.S. Congressman from Maine, Congressional Delegate from Arizona Territory, Chief Justice of Arizona Territory, and the first governor of Arizona
  • Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), novelist, author of A Country Doctor (1884), The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
  • Guy Tripp (1865-1927), business executive and U.S. Army brigadier general
  • Louis B. Costello (1876–1959), newspaper publisher
  • Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904–99), novelist, author of As The Earth Turns (1933) and Dunnybrook (1943)
  • Casey Coleman (1951–2006), radio broadcaster and play-by-by announcer for the Cleveland Indians
  • Mike Eruzione (b. 1954), former National Hockey League player and captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  • Richard Corman (photographer) (b. 1954), portrait photographer.
  • Sam Fuld (b. 1981), Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and General Manager for the Philadelphia Phillies, attended in 8th grade

See also

  • Education in Maine

References