About 9 miles from Moody is the town of North Berwick Maine, which has about 4600 people.
Checked out the town today-

History

Originally a part of Kittery called Kittery Commons, the area was first settled in 1693 by John Morrell, a Quaker who built a log cabin on Wells Street. It was set off from Kittery in 1713 as part of Berwick, named for Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Anglo-Scottish border. Doughty Falls in the Great Works River provided water power for a sawmill, gristmill and carding mill. After the Revolutionary War, the small mill town grew rapidly. It was set off and incorporated as North Berwick on March 22, 1831. The town was named after Berwick, England.
Development was spurred in 1842 by the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad, joined by the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1873. North Berwick became a railroad hub from which its manufactured goods were shipped, including lumber, shingles, clapboards, wooden boxes, firewood, bricks, carriages, caskets, clocks, stove and shoe polish, toboggans and sleds. Also loaded aboard the boxcars were barrels of apples, blocks of ice cut from frozen ponds, granite from quarries, and tins of corn packed at a canning factory. But the 2 biggest North Berwick businesses during the 19th-century made woolens and farm implements.
In 1834, the Maine Legislature incorporated Lang, Hill & Company to manufacture woolen blankets, called "printing blankets," at a mill beside the Great Works River. Renamed the North Berwick Company, by 1850 its principal owner was "Friend" William Hill, who trained as a machinist at the Great Falls Manufacturing Company in Somersworth, New Hampshire. The wooden mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, but rebuilt in brick in 1862. It produced blankets for Civil War troops. The factory had 40 looms turning out 1,500 yards of flannel daily, in addition to blankets. In 1955, the North Berwick Company would close. Its landmark Greek Revival building was used as the Parrish Shoes factory in the 1995 movie Jumanji, and has since been renovated and adapted as housing.

First stop was the Mary Hurd House, on the National Register, currently run as a B&B:

Mary R. Hurd House

The Mary R. Hurd House is a historic house at 2 Elm Street in North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1894, the house is architecturally one of the finest Queen Anne/Eastlake houses in southern Maine. It was built by Mary Hurd, who was the proprietor of the North Berwick Woolen Mill for nearly 60 years, and a major benefactor to the town. Now a bed and breakfast inn, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1979

Description and history The Hurd House is located on the west side of Elm Street (Maine State Route 4), near its junction with Wells Street (Maine State Route 9) in the center of North Berwick. It is a large 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and a busy roofline typical of the Queen Anne style. It has three elaborately decorated chimneys, an iron-crested slate roof with balustraded widow's walk, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main entrance is located near the center of the east-facing front facade, sheltered by a porch that extends to the southern corner on the first floor, and is topped by a smaller porch on the second floor. Both porches are supported by groups of turned columns, with latticework valances and turned balustrades. To the right of the entrance a window bay, squared on the first floor and polygonal on the second, projects slightly.

The house was built in 1894 by Mary R. Hurd, at the time of her second marriage, to David Hurd. Born in 1839 to William Hill, she inherited the North Berwick Woolen Mill upon his death in 1873, and ran the business until her own death in 1933 at age 94. She was a major philanthropic force in the town, funding construction of a fire station and purchase of a fire truck, and funding the construction and endowment of the D. A. Hurd Library. She also notably kept the mills running in the early years of the Great Depression, despite the poor business conditions. The property is now operated as the Angel of the Berwicks Bed & Breakfast.

Here is the library she donated to:

And the woolen mill that was the source of her fortune:

The Olde Woolen Mill (also known as the North Berwick Woolen Mill) is a historic mill complex at Canal Street, on the Great Works River in the center of North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1862, it is the only major mill complex in the Berwick region of York County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The mill is located between Canal Street and the Great Works River, just south of Wells Street (Maine State Route 9) in the village center of North Berwick. The associated mill pond is located just north of Wells Street. The mill complex is a somewhat typical 19th century New England mill complex, with a large rectangular main building, with a series of attached wings. The complex exhibits an eclectic mixture of architectural detailing, including elements of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Colonial Revival styling.

One of the oldest steam engines in the U.S. is connected to this smokestack.

An earlier wooden mill built on the site in 1832 was destroyed by fire, and the existing brick structure built in 1862. Primarily owned by Quakers, the mill, one of the first to automate the manufacture of blankets, produced uniforms and blankets for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.^[2] At its foundation level has been preserved one of the earliest steam engines in the United States, and the only one of its kind to survive.

The mill closed in 1955 and remained mostly unused for nearly 40 years, when it served as the site of the Parrish Shoe Factory in the 1995 fantasy movie Jumanji. In 2009 the structure was renovated into a senior housing site by the Caleb Group, a nonprofit housing organization of New England. It was the first property to be awarded a tax credit under the Maine State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Act of 2008.

On the front of the building, there is an inscription that reads 1862

The source of power for the mill

The mill is currently home to low income folks.

Also went to the Prescott House, which is currently senior housing:

J.L. Prescott House

The J.L. Prescott House is a historic house on High Street in North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1865 for a prominent local businessman, it is one of the largest and most elaborate Italianate houses in southern Maine. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has been converted into a multiunit apartment house.

Description and history

The Prescott House is located on the east side of High Street (Maine State Route 4), opposite the Mary R. Hurd School north of the village center of North Berwick. It is a rambling wood frame structure, with a large 2-1/2 story main block connected to a large carriage barn via a telescoping series of ells. The main block is oriented facing south, with a side gable roof and a four story tower with a mansard roof projecting slightly from the center bay. Window bays with bracketed roofs project from the south and west sides, and most windows are paired narrow sash topped by cornices. Both the main block and carriage barn have wooden corner quoining. Porches feature chamfered posts, and bracketed roofs with pendants.

The house was built in 1865 for J.L. Prescott, owner of the Prescott Stove Polish Company, which was then located in North Berwick. The house is one of only two 19th-century houses of serious architectural merit; the other is the Queen Anne Mary R. Hurd House. Although Prescott was involved in state politics, he moved (along with his company) to New Jersey in the 1880s. After declining in condition during the 20th century, the house has been restored to house several apartments.

Also got to the Morrell House:

Morrell House

The Morrell House is a historic house on Morrills Mill Road in North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1763 by a descendant of one of the area's first European settlers, it is a fine local example of Georgian craftsmanship. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The Morrell House stands on the east side of Morrells Mill Road, a short way south of its crossing of Great Works River near the town line between North Berwick and Sanford. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. Oriented to face south, the main façade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by simple wooden pilasters and topped by a transom window and simple pediment. The interior follows a typical period central-chimney plan, with a narrow winding staircase in the front vestibule, with the parlor to the right and study to the left. The rear of the house is taken up by the kitchen, with a second staircase leading to one of the three bedrooms upstairs.

The area that is today North Berwick was originally part of Kittery in the 17th century, when land was granted here to John Morrell, Sr. He built a log house in the area in 1640, and his sons Peter and Jedediah operated mills on the Great Works River. Jedidiah's son Winthrop built this house in 1763. The building underwent a major restoration in the early 1970s.

Also downtown was the First Baptist Church, which is one of the older churches in town:

Also a very neat 1927 Fire Station:

Another neat discovery was the Hussey Plow Building:

Hussey Plow Company Building

The Hussey Plow Company Building is a historic industrial building on Dyer Street in North Berwick, Maine. Built in 1831, this small wood frame building originally housed the offices of the Hussey Plow Company, now known as the Hussey Seating Company, a major manufacturer of bleachers and outdoor seating. The building, which now houses the company museum, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The Hussey Plow Company Building is located at the end of Dyer Street, one of the main access roads to the Hussey Seating factory on the southeast side of North Berwick's village center. It is a simple rectangular wood frame structure, with a front facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The front facade, facing south, has a double door set in a recessed opening on its right side. Although there are no windows on the front, each of the side and rear elevations has two windows. The building was built in 1831.

The Hussey Seating Company's origins are in the development of a more efficient plow by William Hussey (1800–70) in the 1830s. His son Timothy established the T.B. Hussey Plow Company, which manufactured the metal parts for the plows in Newmarket, New Hampshire, and the wooden parts in North Berwick. Although plows were a major portion of its business throughout the 19th century, the company was by the start of the 20th century producing steel ladders and fire escapes, as well as metal parts for use in textile operations. In the 1930s the company developed wooden bleacher seat assemblies, which were refined in the 1950s to provide indoor rollout gymnasium seating that is now standard in many school facilities. This small building, originally used as an office, now houses a small museum.