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The city of Biddeford is located on the south bank of the Saco River on the coast of southern Maine. Its central business district is located inland, opposite that of the city of Saco, which lies to the north. The two cities developed around this area due to its ideal location for textile mills, which, on the Biddeford side, are located just ...
The Riverfront (Welsh: Glan yr Afon) is the principal and newest theatre and arts centre in the City of Newport. It is located on the west bank of the River Usk on the Bristol Packet Wharf in the city centre. Designed by architectural firm Austin-Smith:Lord, the centre was opened on 23 October 2004.
The Saco River (/ ˈ s ɑː k oʊ / SAH-koh, Abenaki: Sαkóhki) is a river in northeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine in the United States.It drains a rural area of 1,703 square miles (4,410 km 2) of forests and farmlands west and southwest of Portland, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Saco Bay, 136 miles (219 km) from its source. [1]
The road that is now Maine State Route 117 was the main road in the area leading north from the port of Saco, and became the focus for development on the Buxton side of the village. [2] One of the first settlers on the west side of the River, Isaac Lane, paid to have a bridge built across the river (roughly now the location of United States ...
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The Northeast Coast campaign of 1675 was conducted during the First Abenaki War (the northern theatre of King Philip's War) and involved the Wabanaki Confederacy raiding colonial American settlements along the New England Colonies/Acadia border in present-day Maine. Allied with French colonists in New France, they killed eighty colonists and ...
The Salmon Falls (East) Historic District encompasses a node of rural development in western Buxton, Maine.It includes thirteen historic properties, mainly Greek Revival in character, extending north along Maine State Route 117, north of its junction with Simpson Road, and two on the latter street, that were all built between about 1800 and 1850.
A map of numbered covered bridges in New Hampshire, 1967 Stark Covered Bridge, built in 1857, over the Upper Ammonoosuc River Contoocook Railroad Bridge is the oldest covered railroad bridge of its kind in the United States Conway is home to the Saco River Bridge, built in 1890 Sign for NH Covered Bridge No. 2 (Coombs Covered Bridge) along NH Route 10