Westbrook is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland.

Other industries followed, manufacturing grain bags, machinery and water wheels, carriage and harness, boots, shoes and moccasins, tinware, leather board, bricks, wooden boxes, box shook, meal and flour.

The Portland Manufacturing Company built a cotton textile mill at Saccarappa Falls for making "sheetings, stripes and ducks."

[6] The Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832, connecting Portland to Harrison by way of Westbrook and Sebago Lake.

It was the primary commercial shipping route for goods until 1871, when it was rendered obsolete by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad.

[3] Remnants of the canal can still be seen throughout the city, including Beaver Pond, along Stroudwater Street near the Maine Turnpike overpass, and in the woods between Westbrook High School and Oxford-Cumberland Canal Elementary School.

In January 2019, a naturally-occurring ice disk measuring about 100 yards across formed on the Presumpscot River.

[9][10] The unusual formation briefly drew international social media and press attention, and boosted tourism to Westbrook.

Now primarily a suburb of the larger city of Portland, Westbrook itself has a growing business base and developing core downtown district.

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a major multi-national corporation, is headquartered in Westbrook.

However, foreign competition and the age of the mill have drastically reduced its workforce and production.

Today the mill has found a niche in the marketplace, becoming one of the nation's top manufacturers of release papers and employing about 300 people.

Westbrook is home to the TV station WMTW, southern Maine's ABC affiliate.

Spring Harbor Hospital, southern Maine's only private psychiatric treatment and recovery center, is also located within the city.

Some of the notable neighborhoods include: In addition to the sports complexes located at Westbrook High School and other schools, the city offers several public recreational areas and facilities, including: