Keywords: Pepperell Manufacturing Co.
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
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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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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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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"… an account of the first hundred years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, incorporated February 16, 1844."
