Pejepscot Historical Society

The society was founded by 16 local citizens who officially met for the first time on January 10, 1888, at the Brunswick Selectmen's Room in the Odd Fellows building.

In 1891 charter member John Furbish purchased the 1827 First Congregational Church building on School Street (later known as the Varney Lecture Hall) in Brunswick for the society's use at the price of $1,000.

The success of a lecture series, which brought prominent speakers to the town, helped revitalize the society and in 1939 the group played a role in Brunswick's bicentennial celebration.

[4] In March 1982, Alice Skolfield Whittier offered her half of a Park Row duplex and its contents to the organization as what was called by then-president F. Burton Whitman "the biggest and best gift ever made to our Society".

Not long after this, the owners of the building adjoining the Skolfield-Whittier House sold their property to the society so that the organization might be headquartered near its first separate museum.