Keywords: Pepperell
Item 104655
Advertisement for Lady Pepperell sheets, Biddeford, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1926 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 103875
Pepperell Mills finishing room, Biddeford, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1925 Location: Biddeford Media: Photograph
Item 116617
McArthur House, Portland, 1912-1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912–1913 Location: Portland Client: Robert McArthur Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 116616
Miss Lena McArthur house, Biddeford, 1922-1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–1925 Location: Biddeford Client: Lena G. McArthur Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
"They were later bought by Pepperell Manufacturing Company by 1900 and became Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills."
Site Page
"Saco Water Power Company of York Manufacturing, built the Laconia Mills on the Biddeford side of the river in 1844, then started Pepperell…"
Story
My career working at Pepperell Mills in the Vellux Division
by David Bishop
My 35 years working in the Vellux blanket division of Pepperell Mills, Biddeford.
Story
Everything we did was new and exciting in the Vellux division
by Maurice Paquette
If you applied yourself you could do anything at Pepperell Mills.
