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Item 15028

Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1881 Location: Seal Cove; Manchester Media: Metal and rubber

Item 10409

Bangor & Aroostook engine 404

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Media: Photographic print

Item 10446

Wreck of Bangor and Aroostook steam engines. Squ Pan, 1945

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: 1945-04-04 Location: Squa Pan Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad

The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.

Exhibit

Powering Pejepscot Paper Co.

In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.

Exhibit

Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

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.