Keywords: Chop
Item 28929
Beaver Chop Mark, Pepperell Manufacturing, Biddeford, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Biddeford Media: Wood, metal
Item 54287
Cutting down trees, Fairfield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1920 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
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.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store
"… Marion Stinson remembers, "You could buy a pork chop for ten cents." Smith owned a team of horses, most likely to transport his products."
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Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources
"The Axe was a tool typically used for chopping wood with usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle."
