Keywords: textile machinery
Item 102036
Textile industry companies on the falls, Biddeford and Saco, 1890
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 102018
Saco and Pettee buildings along Smith Street, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard
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
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
Site Page
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3
"… Water Power Company as well, the real estate and machinery arm of the venture. These men & their companies would start and operate the Laconia and…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head
"… Association By 1887 an enlarged building housed machinery for two whistles. Those whistles show on the roof, each adjacent to a stack."
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
