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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
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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.