Keywords: Pepperell advertisement
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 66299
Webber Hospital and Nurses' Home, Biddeford, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Biddeford Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3
"Pepperell Mills held onto their cotton overstock, and were able to produce textiles throughout the war."
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"Webber who had been overseer of the Pepperell cloth room and paymaster of the Laconia division. When he died in 1899 he bequeathed $40,000 toward a…"
