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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 7 of 17

"They were later bought by Pepperell Manufacturing Company by 1900 and became Laconia Division of the Pepperell Mills."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"… Power Company of York Manufacturing, built the Laconia Mills on the Biddeford side of the river in 1844, then started Pepperell Manufacturing…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… men & their companies would start and operate the Laconia and finally Pepperell Manufacturing Companies on the Biddeford side of the river as well."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"B Company served as Home Guards meaning they were called into service for the protection of public property within the State."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 8 of 17

"Deering was eventually renamed J.G. Deering & Son Company once Joseph G. Deering’s son Frank Cutter Deering joined the business."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 11 of 17

"The first company of Biddeford volunteers left in May of 1861. By October of 1862, more than half of all able-bodied men were in the armed services."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… Captain Benjamin Hooper and his sea coast patrol company "to Defend the Sea Coast in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay", raised at Biddeford and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… an English aristocrat and member of the Plymouth Company, was determined to overcome the difficulties that had plagued the Popham Colony…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Incorporation of the Saco Water Power Machine Company, 1837McArthur Public Library Matthew Cobb was the principal merchant in Biddeford during these…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… first hundred years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, incorporated February 16, 1844. Boston: Pepperell Manufacturing Company, 1945. (N)"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"The companies worked hard to innovate and improve themselves, but the post-war economies and business environment were setting them on a path of…"