Keywords: York Mills and Factory Island
Item 23044
York Manufacturing Company Workers, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 29070
Boarding houses of York Mills, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
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
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"The women packers had to work all day in the factories and then look after the children and household chores when they went home."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"… family still lived on Rodick's Island, now Bar Island, where they raised sheep and spun and wove their own wool."
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
