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Biddeford History Books
Available for sale upstairs at the Information Desk are “A Brief History of Biddeford”, “Images of America: Biddeford” and “A History and Stories of Biddeford”.
Local booksellers offering a variety of local history titles, including those above, include Elements and the museum store at Saco Museum. Maine Historical Society also has an excellent selection (and an online store), and your purchases support their work preserving Maine history. Finally, you can buy directly from the publisher at Arcadia Publishing/The History Press …or your other vendor of choice.
FEATURED FIRSTS
1849 Saco Biddeford City Directory [1st City directory]
1855-6 City of Biddeford Annual Report [1st City annual report]
History of Saco and Biddeford (1830) [1st history book]
Biddeford High School Olympian: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1899) [1st yearbook]
BOOKS BY TOPIC
FRANCO-AMERICAN GENEALOGY SOCIETY COLLECTION These books made available through collaborative digitization efforts of the York County Genealogical Society of Franco-Americans and the McArthur Library, June 2022. Biddeford, Maine marriages 1854-1891 Birth records of Biddeford, Maine: Early 1800s to 1891 Births 1870-1880 St. Joseph’s Parish, Biddeford, Maine Births 1881-1887 St. Joseph’s Parish, Biddeford, Maine Corrections and Additions of Marriages for St. Joseph’s Parish, Biddeford, Maine Immigrants La Justice Obituaries 1896-1950 Maine’s Franco-American Heritage (1984-2008) Marriages of St. Andre, Biddeford, Maine (1899-1978) Marriages of St. Joseph’s Church, Biddeford, Maine Marriages, Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish 1928-1985 Saco, Maine Marriages, St. Mary’s Parish 1850-1989 Memories of World War II: A collection of photos and stories of servicemen and women from Biddeford & Saco, Maine Necrology of Woodlawn Cemetery Biddeford, Maine 1786-1998 Obituaries from the Biddeford and Saco Journal 1902-1975 (Book 1) Obituaries from the Biddeford and Saco Journal 1902-1975 (Book 2) St. Joseph Cemetery Records Biddeford, Maine 1870-1990 (Volume 1: A-I) St. Joseph Cemetery Records Biddeford, Maine 1870-1990 (Volume 2: J-Z)
BIDDEFORD-SACO
History of Saco and Biddeford (1830)
1855-6 City of Biddeford Annual Report (1856)
“Truth is stranger than fiction.” Biography of Isaac W. Ambler (1860)
Transcript of the early records of Biddeford (1906)
Biddeford, Saco, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Souvenir (1907)
Maine Coast Romance: The Sokoki Trail (1907)
Three centuries of Biddeford : an historical sketch (1916)
A History and Stories of Biddeford (1944, 1994)
Souvenir of Biddeford (Maine) Centennial (1955)
BIDDEFORD POOL AND THE SEA
Diary of a voyage from New Orleans to St. Petersburg (1838)
Historical sketches of Old Orchard and the shores of Saco Bay : Biddeford Pool, Old Orchard Beach, Pine Point, Prout’s Neck (1884)
Sea memories: or, Personal experiences in the U. S. Navy in peace and war (1886)
Gleanings from the Sea (1887)
BUSINESS
1849 Saco Biddeford City Directory (1849)
Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine Company (1865)
CHURCHES + RELIGION
Cochranism Delineated (1819)
Gospel hymns no. 3 (1878)
Sunday school voices: a collection of sacred songs (1910)
Jefferson Street Baptist Church (1926)
SCHOOLS + COLLEGES
Biddeford High School, Report for summer term 1868
Biddeford High School Teachers and Graduates 1848-1888
The Olympian: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1899)
Souvenir of the Biddeford Public Schools (1901)
Dedication program of the Biddeford High School Annex (1926)
St. Francis College Motus (1972)
TEXTILE MILLS
Gibbs notebook (1881)
The Romance of Pepperell (1921)
Chronicle of Textile Machinery 1824-1924 (1923)
Lady Pepperell’s Thrift Book (1933)
Our Greatest Industry (ca. 1935)
Views of the mills of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company (1935)
Pepperell’s “Play It Safe” Comic Book (1947)
Sir William Pepperell (1951)
Underground Canals of Biddeford (2000)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.1 (c.1848)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.2 (c.1888)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.3 (c.1843)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.4 (c.1875)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.5 (c.1848)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.6 (c.1849)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.7 (c.1850)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.8 (c.1853)
Saco Water Power company engineering notebook No.9 (c.1850)
Pepperell Sheet Newsletters – Biddeford Mills Museum page (https://archive.org/details/@photodave)
Our Neighbors
SACO + OLD ORCHARD BEACH
Old Times in Saco (1891)
Garland genealogy (1897)
“The surety of the upright” : a discourse preached on the occasion of the National Fast, June 1, 1865, in the First Parish Meeting-House, Saco, Me. (1865)
Old Orchard Beach Maine (1900)
