Keywords: Saco City Hall
Item 25824
Saco City Hall and Dyer Library, ca. 1896
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1896 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 51584
John Fairfield and steam pumper, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 116448
Dyer Library alterations, Saco, 1913-1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1917 Location: Saco Client: unknown 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
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Site Page
"… to them at the City Opera House and other halls and venues downtown. Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and dramatics…"
Story
Jim Paquette - preserving his Franco-American and musical roots
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Lead singer of the iconic Black Hart Band shares insights of his life journey.
Story
Bob "Coach" Cote: Highlights from life of a Biddeford legend
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Bob talks about growing up in Biddeford, sports, the fire of 1947, and closing of St. Louis High.
