Keywords: Amoskeag Mill
Item 72749
Cooking class, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1924
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1924 Location: Manchester 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.