Keywords: Cotton Factory
Item 20986
Topsham Scenery - Cotton Factory, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Topsham Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 29188
Hallowell Cotton Mill, Academy Street, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1885 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 40510
40-44 Cotton Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Heirs of Annie M. McBrady Use: Factory
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.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - The Cotton Mill & The Johnson Shoe Company
"Explore our links and learn all about Hallowell's industrial era! Johnson Shoe Factory, Hallowell, 1900Hubbard Free Library Hallowell…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations
"Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations Annual Reports. Hallowell: City Council of Hallowell, 1911. “books.google.com.” n.d. (accessed Mar."
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