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Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Seashore Trolley Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"at Saco & Biddeford, 1848Dyer Library/Saco Museum The cotton textile manufacturing industry became very significant in Biddeford once the Laconia…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Fifth Maine Regiment Veteran Reunion, Peaks Island, 1912Fifth Maine Regiment Museum B Company, Fifth…"

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… of the Saco in the Fryeburg area (northern Saco River) and the Sokoki or Saco who lived along and on the southern part of the Saco River in…"

Parsons Memorial Library

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks

"… Souliere Britton Wolf Abbe Museum Dyer Library/Saco Museum Hudson Museum-University of Maine University of New England And of course, the amazing…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"(M) Downs, Jacques M. The cities on the Saco. Norfolk, Va.: Donning Company, 1985. (N, A) Emery, Edwin. The history of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900. Ed."

McArthur Public Library

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"At the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railway depot on Commercial Street, there was a “dense mass of human beings, so much so that it was next to…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… visit the First Parish Meetinghouse and do the Museum in the Streets. The students were great; they outperformed themselves." -Raymond Gaudette…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"It was abandoned by the Scamman family of Saco when they were captured by Indians in 1697. When the family returned home after almost a year, their…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… rail service to Portland, Old Orchard Beach and Saco following what is now Route 1.(1) Trolley at Dunstan, Scarborough, ca."

Bridgton Historical Society

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements

"… (added items in 2023) York Institute Museum, Saco We would like to thank the following people for their research assistance and advice: Emerson W…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… working first as an apprentice at a sawmill in Saco, William joined his sister Elizabeth and her husband Dr."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Railroads: Scarborough’s World Expands Portland, Saco & Portsmouth; Boston & Maine Before the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad began operations…"

Music in Maine - HEAR

"1897Dyer Library/Saco Museum Victor Victrola, 1914Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Thomas Edison created the first phonograph in 1877."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… would not fish any of the islands found at the Saco River entrance, for these were the grounds of Saco (Camp Ellis) fishermen."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"The tract was slightly north of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad tracks and the western edge bordered the marsh."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… canvas Collections of the York Institute Museum, Saco Saco painter Charles Henry Granger created this composite tavern scene using local characters…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"1812 Collections of the Dyer Library / Saco Museum Reverend Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825), best known for his imaginative biography of George…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… that July when the rails of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad Company were finally connected to those of the Portland Railroad Company, connecting…"