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Falmouth, Maine History, Genealogy and Trivia

Com. Edward Preble, of Falmouth, led a task force against the Barbary pirates of Tripoli in 1804.


Actor Gary Merrill, former husband of Bette Davis, picketed a Falmouth bookstore in 1985, urging patrons not to buy a book by the daughter of his ex-wife.


Falmouth resident Marvin Sadik is the former director of the National Portrait Gallery.


Maine got its first indoor tennis courts in 1968 on Route 1 in Falmouth.


Maine's largest natural history organization is the Maine Audubon Society, at Gisland Farm in Falmouth.


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