Falmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The
population was 11,185 at the 2010 census. It is part of the
Portlandâ€"South Portlandâ€"Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical
area.This northern suburb of Portland borders Casco Bay and offers one
of the largest anchorages in Maine. The town is home to three private
golf clubs and the Portland Yacht Club.This northern suburb of
Portland borders Casco Bay and offers one of the largest anchorages in
Maine. The town is home to three private golf clubs and the Portland
Yacht Club.Native Americans followed receding glaciers into Maine
around 11,000 BC. At the time of European contact in the sixteenth
century, people speaking a western dialect of the Wabanaki language
inhabited present-day Falmouth. Captain John Smith observed a
semi-autonomous band known as the Aucocisco living in Casco Bay.
English explorer Christopher Levett met with the Aucocisco Sagamore
Skittery Gusset at his summer village at the Presumpscot Falls in
1623.A combination of warfare and disease decimated Native peoples in
the years before English colonization, creating a shatter zone of
devastation and political instability in what would become southern
Maine. The introduction of European wares in the 1500s reoriented
long-standing Native trade relationships in the Gulf of Maine. Warfare
soon broke out among groups such as the Mi'kmaq and Penobscot who
sought to subjugate their neighbors by monopolizing access to European
goods. The arrival of foreign pathogens only served to compound the
upheaval in the region. A particularly notorious epidemic between 1614
and 1620 ravaged the population of coastal New England with mortality
rates at upwards of 90 percent. Native peoples were not totally
destroyed however, maintaining a presence in the Casco Bay area until
King George's War in the 1740s. French military defeat and increasing
English settler migration to the area from primarily southern New
England impelled most Native Americans to assimilate into European
society, migrate toward the protection of New France or further up the
coast where they remain today. Falmouth, Maine Top Movies & Young Movies