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A historic mill museum dedicated to creating exhibits that will educate the community and highlight mill history; as a research collection to assist the public in locating information on the mill's buildings, history and employees; and to ensure the story of Biddeford's economic and industrial revolution remains relevant and accessible to diverse audiences.
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"The Laconia Mills were a critical asset to the city during the war but were unable to recover from the economic hardships they faced during and after…"
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"Once these two mills were established this mill district came to be one of the largest cotton milling facilities in the country."
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"… for ice harvesting, granite cutting, and cotton textile manufacturing. Businesses that supported the war did well and were able to hire more…"
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"… from the Southern States then manufactured in textile mills. During the years of the war, cotton manufacturing became extremely challenging."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3
"Biddeford's textile mills however, were hit hard by the stoppage in cotton production & the cotton blockades."
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"Tremendous numbers of workers were needed for the textile mills, and Biddeford began to experience an intense level of immigration, first of Irish…"
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"… were drawn to the area to work in the huge textile mills, many became entrepreneurs in their own right and opened small businesses up and down Main…"
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"… migrated to Biddeford and Saco to work in textile mills, ice harvesting manufactures, lumber mills, and granite quarries."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3
"… first newspaper, first city directory, first textile mills and the first French-Canadian immigrant."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot
"… and Saco have long been a center for lumbering, textiles and shipbuilding. Behind the industrial background of these two cities lays a history of…"
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"… Saco "divisions" or move them down South to the textile production centers of Georgia and Alabama, where the help was cheaper and the raw materials…"
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Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill
"Hubbard Free Library The Cotton Mill's main textile was fabric. The Cotton Mill made jeans, sheeting, coat lining, and prints."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"(N, A) Textile Manufacture Collection (1844-2010). (DC.14) McArthur Library Special Collections. (N, A) Thursday Club Collection."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3
"Captain Bradbury built a fulling mill on Spring's Island for the felting of woolen goods. Mill wheel bearing, Saco, ca."
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"The former mill buildings are slowly being refinished and repurposed into modern residences and boutique manufacturing and business space."
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"People were migrating to the area to work in the mills and the supporting businesses that supplied them."
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"“All places of business were closed, and the mills shut down. Flags were to be seen everywhere, and the demand for red, white, and blue ribbons…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford
"… plus the successful manufacturing at the many mills, combined to foster a lively cultural scene."
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"Ad by Pepperell Mills to recruit women workers, Biddeford, 1943McArthur Public Library In Biddeford, like the rest of urban Maine, the relief of…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - ABOUT US
"… Stevens, a retired employee of the Laconia mills, and the energy of Robert McArthur, an Agent of the Pepperell mills, the association bought the…"
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"Layoffs were common for mill workers, many of which were forced to rely on the city's Poor Farm for Assistance program."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford
"Drew's Mill, Biddeford, 1909McArthur Public Library Lumber and other goods from the interior came down the river where they were readied for sale…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"… Society During the fight warriors burned two mills and a house in the area to try and lure out the settlers, to no avail."