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Description
The Saco and Pettee Shops produced textile manufacturing equipment in Biddeford from 1897-1912. The company occupied the former Saco Water Power Company Machine Shops, and after 1912 became the Saco-Lowell Shops. T
he Saco and Pettee buildings were between the taller Pepperell buildings and the Saco River, along Smith Street; the campus included multiple machine shops, storage buildings, a counting house, foundry buildings and canals. The tall Pepperell buildings included mills, picker houses, boarding houses, and weave sheds.
About This Item
- Title: Saco and Pettee Shops and Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, ca. 1910
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: BID.MIL.O33
- Collection: General Postcard Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Buildings--Maine--Biddeford
- Foundries--Maine--Biddeford
- Machine shops--Maine--Biddeford
- Mills--Maine--Biddeford
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Saco-Lowell Foundry
- Saco-Pettee
- Textile industry--Maine--Biddeford
- Textile machinery
Other Keywords
- Laconia Mills
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company
- Pepperell Mills
- Saco and Pettee Machine Shops
- Saco Water Power Company
- Saco Water Power Machine Shops
- Saco-Lowell Shops
- textile machinery
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