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Item 26799

Title: Sardine worker housing, Lubec, 1951

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society

Date: 1951

Location: Lubec

Media: Photograph

Item 29370

Title: Pepperell Mills boarding houses, Biddeford, ca. 1875

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library

Date: circa 1875

Location: Biddeford

Media: Stereograph card

Item 64090

Title: Sardine Factory B and Johnson Bay, Lubec, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society

Date: circa 1950

Location: Lubec

Media: Trimmed photograph

Tax Records Showing 3 of 62 View All

Item 37434

Address: 561 Commercial Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Ayer Houston Corp.

Use: Factory

Item 44455

Address: 34-38 Brown Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Schlotterbeck & Foss Company

Use: Factory

Item 53388

Address: 153 Fore Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Thomas Laughlin Company

Use: Factory

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Exhibit

Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

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.