Keywords: Business locations before the Saco House Fire
Item 31678
Main Street businesses, Saco, 1911
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1911 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
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… Portland, Saco & Portsmouth; Boston & Maine Before the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad began operations in 1842, people walked, rode horseback…"
