Keywords: Two Hearts River
Item 110988
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper
Item 24324
Cast of "The Old Peabody Pew," Limerick, 1921
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Limerick Media: Print from Glass Negative
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
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"… Library We little realized going through the heart of town the horrible change we would find. It was so light when we got [to] the tin bridge that…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2
"… Epicenter, General Surgery, Hearing Center, Heart Center of Eastern Maine, Imaging Services, Infusion Center, Intensive Care Unit, Interventional…"
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
