The directory contains information for local and family historicans and genealogists: numerous ads, a business directory, locations of streets and roads, a residential directory providing names of heads of households as well as occupation and address, schools, churches, libraries, associations, and etc.

Extracted from microfilm copy of Westbrook vital records (births and marriages) to 1892. Film: 012615.

Falmouth changed to Stroudwater in 1814. In the same year it again changed to Westbrook. In 1891 Westbrook was incorporated as a city.