Keywords: Machinery and equipment
Item 14485
Bangor & Aroostook equipment, Houlton, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 102018
Saco and Pettee buildings along Smith Street, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard
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
The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3
"… of three feet, and destroying dye tubs and other machinery with gravel and lighter stones. Guilford Woolen Mills, ca."
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
