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Historical Items Showing 3 of 6 View All
Item 71042
Title: Letter to Col. Shepley on circumstances in New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Location: New Orleans
Media: Ink on paper
Item 29089
Title: The Saco Factory Girl and Emily Adderson Romances of Real Life, 1852
Contributed by: Dyer Library Archives / Saco Museum
Date: 1852
Location: Saco
Media: Ink on paper
Item 17177
Title: Sarah F. Sanborn letter to Peter Sanborn, 1857
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1857
Location: Readfield; Auburn
Media: Ink on paper
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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.
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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva
Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.
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A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides
Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.
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Site
The history of the smallest city in Maine as created by a team consisting of the Hallowell Area Board of Trade, Hubbard Free Library, The Row House, Vaughan Homestead Foundation, Hallowell Firemen’s Association, and students from Hall-Dale Middle School. Topics covered include: natural disasters, the granite industry and other industries central to the development of the city, firefighters and police, Hallowell’s contribution to modern medicine, the Kennebec River, and more.