Keywords: Factory Island
Item 7437
Factory Island Department Shoe Store, Saco, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Saco Media: Photo negative
Item 61844
Fish factory workers, Swan's Island, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"… 1880s, the Rodick family still lived on Rodick's Island, now Bar Island, where they raised sheep and spun and wove their own wool."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"Though men did most of the heavy lifting at the factory, unloading the boats and hauling crates, the packers were mostly women and children, valued…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
