Keywords: Mill Street
Item 22730
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1936 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 103929
Pepperell's vacant Mill #2, Biddeford, 2015
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1854 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image
Item 62361
Mill, Maryland Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Paul Donahue Use: Mill - Planing
Item 86942
Grain Mill, Commercial Street (rear), Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Richardson Wharf Company Use: Grain Mill
Item 110759
Plans for Warehouse Building, Portland, 1917-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1946 Location: Portland Client: Burnham and Morrill Co. Architect: John Howard Stevens; John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 109374
Hall at Cumberland Mills, Westbrook, 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Westbrook; Westbrook Client: Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Architect: Fassett & Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
A historic mill museum dedicated to creating exhibits that will educate the community and highlight mill history; as a research collection to assist the public in locating information on the mill's buildings, history and employees; and to ensure the story of Biddeford's economic and industrial revolution remains relevant and accessible to diverse audiences.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill
"In 1871, James C. Emerson built a small sawmill on the site of where the spool mill was to be. The sawmill engaged in sawing lumber for various…"
Story
Growing up in Lewiston and running Museum L-A
by Rachel Desgrosseilliers
Growing up Franco-American and honoring our mill working heritage
Story
Tammy Ackerman: Falling in love with Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Someone "from away" who fell in love with Biddeford and contributed to its transformation
