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Description
Known at the time as the "Great Fire," the Pepperell Cotton Storehouse on Pearl Street in Biddeford burned the night of October 29, 1915.
The loss of $500, 000 made this the most costly fire Biddeford had yet known, as well as one of the most spectacular.
About This Item
- Title: Pepperell Mill storehouse fire, Biddeford, 1915
- Creator: Robert H. Gay
- Creation Date: 1915-10-29
- Subject Date: 1915-10-29
- Location: Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12.5 cm x 17.5 cm
- Local Code: mca94A
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Mills
- Pepperell Manufacturing Company--Fires, 1915
- Fires--Maine--Biddeford
- Biddeford (Me.)--Fires, 1915
- Textile Industry--Maine--Biddeford
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