Keywords: web-drawing
Item 23526
Web-drawing at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 82137
Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1954
Contributed by: An individual through Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1954 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
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.
