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Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco Civil War Veterans of Biddeford, 1916McArthur Public Library Reality dawned on the citizens of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 14 of 17

"… Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco During the Civil War, the State of Maine provided aid to the families of soldiers."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"Most of the surviving information comes from the District of Saco custom house. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE..."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"During the 1870s the ice trade was very active. Huge ice-storage houses were built along the river, and the harvest was stored packed in hay as well…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Library The village of Winter Harbor - west Saco was an increasingly dangerous place to live in the 17th and 18th centuries."

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

"Veterans law services, Biddeford-Saco, 1864McArthur Public Library During the war years layoffs were common for mill workers, many of which were…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Chase, Georgiana. Stratton's Islands of Saco Bay, An Interwoven History 1605-1993. Fort Bragg, CA: Mendocino Lithographers. Gold, Susan Dudley, ed."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… available to them at the City Opera House and other halls and venues downtown. Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… rail service to Portland, Old Orchard Beach and Saco following what is now Route 1.(1) Trolley at Dunstan, Scarborough, ca."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… working first as an apprentice at a sawmill in Saco, William joined his sister Elizabeth and her husband Dr."

Bridgton Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… & Portsmouth; Boston & Maine Before the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad began operations in 1842, people walked, rode horseback or traveled by…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… would not fish any of the islands found at the Saco River entrance, for these were the grounds of Saco (Camp Ellis) fishermen."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"The tract was slightly north of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad tracks and the western edge bordered the marsh."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"His grandfather purchased lands near Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… the Post Road in 1760.(4) County Road and Saco Street, North Scarborough, 1907Scarborough Historical Society & Museum In the late 1700s, the…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… Historical Society Lee preached first in Saco, and then Portland, and northward, until on October 15, he preached at Lowertown, which we know…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… term of at least five years.” Philip Eastman of Saco, Henry Williamson of Stark, and Ephraim Flint of Dover were the three Commissioners appointed…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"At the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railway depot on Commercial Street, there was a “dense mass of human beings, so much so that it was next to…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… in 1850, and worked as a brick mason in Saco, Bowdoinham, and Freeman. He enlisted from Bowdoinham in Company F, 19th Maine Infantry, on August 25…"