Keywords: Pepperell Manufacturing
Item 104655
Advertisement for Lady Pepperell sheets, Biddeford, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1926 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 104554
Letter to the stockholders of Pepperell Manufacturing Co. and Laconia Co., 1899
Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: 1899-05-01 Location: Biddeford Media: text on paper
Item 151740
Miss Lena McArthur house, Biddeford, 1922-1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–1925 Location: Biddeford Client: Lena G. McArthur Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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"Once these two mills were established this mill district came to be one of the largest cotton milling facilities in the country. Even when cotton…"
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"They were later bought by Pepperell Manufacturing Company by 1900 and became Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills."
Story
My career working at Pepperell Mills in the Vellux Division
by David Bishop
My 35 years working in the Vellux blanket division of Pepperell Mills, Biddeford.
Story
Everything we did was new and exciting in the Vellux division
by Maurice Paquette
If you applied yourself you could do anything at Pepperell Mills.
