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1. 0074b - Print, Photographic

   Saco River, about 1916. The Biddeford shore of the river near the old Morrill School, Pool Road area. Small end-to house at right center is that of photographer R. H. Gay.

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2. 0305 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Bulls eye glass in a door at the Jordan-Gay house at 303 Pool Road, Biddeford.

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3. 0403 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Monument and tablet at "Town Burying Ground", Pool Road, erected by Rebecca Emery Chapter, DAR, in 1904. This monument also approximates the location of the *second* Town Meeting House, built in 1719-1720. The first Town Meeting House was built at Winter Harbor (Biddeford Pool) in 1660 -1666. The population, however, kept growing back from the sea and by 1759 the second meeting house was abandoned in favor of the third meeting house, built furthe...

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4. 0563 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Judge Rishworth Jordan house, Pool Road, Biddeford, 1889. Photo taken by Hartley Dennett in 1889, the original small panes of glass visible in windows at left. Judge Rishworth Jordan was the eldest son of Captain Samuel Jordan who built the house near Fort Hill now known as the Goldthwait House, and the oldest hosue in Biddeford. Judge Rishworth Jordan was born in that odl house in 1719 and he lived to be 89, dying in 1808. He began to build this...

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5. 0620 - Print, Photographic

   "Old Jordan Homestead" ~ Judge Rishworth Jordan house, Pool Road, Biddeford, circa 1915. Picture was taken from teh rear, on the western side, looking toward Biddeford Pool. The building was later remodelled into the Stella Maris School, a Catholic girls school. It is now part of the grounds of the University of New England.

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6. 0677 - Print, Photographic

   Captain Falker house, 558 Pool Road, Biddeford, 1921. This was the home of Capt. Nat Falker, who was born on the Pool Road in 1821, went to sea in 1830 as a boy of 9, became a ship-captain at 19 and in a career of nearly 50 years never lost a vessel or a sailor under his command. He died in 1902. This house was burned during the forest fires of October 1947. It was the only house lost on the Pool Road.

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7. 0681a - Print, Photographic

   The Haley House, 763 Pool Road, in 1953. This house was built by Benjamin Haley about 1718 or 1719, and was the second oldest house in Biddeford. This is the house in which the women frightened off the Indians by rolling pumpkins down the stairs. [Authority for date, see p.94 of article by Adelaide Haley R974.1 B58.9 "The Haley House and Farm" published in Old-Time New England, July 1944.]

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8. 0683 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Captain Clark House, 507 Pool Road, Biddeford circa 1915. [Probably photographed by Robert H. Gay] The later photograph of this house (taken in 1953) shows the barn was remodeled sometime in the years in between, and the surrounding wood grew in some as well.

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9. 0683a - Print, Photographic

   Captain Clark House, 507 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. This house is believed to date from about 1800. It is known to have been occupied in 1830 by Captain George Clark who was born in 1807 and went to sea in 1819 at the age of 12. This house was his home until he died in 1891 at the age of 84.

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10. 0685b - Print, Photographic

    Hill House, 299 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. Occupied for many years by Captain William Hill who died in 1897. The exact date of the building of the house is not known, but this house (or another one on the same site) was the home of Biddeford's famous "Parson Webster", minister of the old Pool Road Church from 1779 to 1828 - almost half a century.

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11. 0686 - Print, Photographic

    The old Holman House, 687 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. This house is believed to date from around 1800. It takes its name from John Holman who was born in 1799 (possibly in this house) and who lived here until his death in 1872.

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12. 0687a - Print, Photographic

    Captain Waldo Hill house, 493 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. This Captain Waldo Hill was born in 1814 in the Jordan-Hill-Goldthwait House back of Fort Hill which his father (Captain Waldo Hill, Senior) then owned and occupied. When the son bought or built this house is not known. But the house is known to have been standing in 1830.

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13. 0687b - Print, Photographic

    Perkins-Deering house, 483 Pool Road (now Sokokis Drive), Biddeford in 1953. The home of Captain John Perkins in 1830 but it undoubtedly did not have the dormer window and trellises then. In later years the house was home of Edward M. Deering, Biddeford's famous writing master who served the schools for more than 40 years. Date of original building is not known.

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. 0692a - Print, Photographic

    Jordan-Gay house, 303 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. Built between 1800-1825. This current address of this home is now 3 Decary Road. This was the home of Captain Rishworth Jordan, a Biddeford sea captain in the Age of Sail. When Captain Jordan died in 1899, it was said that he had lived in this house (between voyages) for 63 years. It was occupied afterward by Captain Jordan's grandson, photographer Robert H. Gay.

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15. 0692b - Print, Photographic

    Captain Donnell house, 309 Pool Road, Biddeford in 1953. Built around 1800. Modern address of this house is now 9 Decary Road. The two-story porch and stairway were added in the mid-20th century, but the house itself was built around 1800. In 1812 it was owned by Captain William Donnell whose daughter was born there in that year - Capt. Donnell's daughter was the great-grandmother of J. Vaughan Dennett of Saco, who donated many materials to the ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. 0724 - Negative, Sheet Film

    Detail view from the 1795 Massachusetts survey map, showing the First Parish Congregational Church on the Pool Road. This church was the third built in Biddeford. It was built in 1759 and this picture is an enlargement of a sketch made on a map drawn in 1795. It shows the approximate appearance of the old church before it was remodelled in 1840, as it is today. [See MAP0025a - MAP0025d for original.]

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. 0724a - Negative, Sheet Film

    Pool Road Church, from 1795 Massachusetts survey map. This church was the third built in Biddeford. It was built in 1759 and this picture is an enlargement of a sketch made on a map drawn in 1795. It shows the approximate appearance of the old church before it was remodelled in 1840, as it is today. [See MAP0025a - MAP0025d for original.]

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. 0727a - Print, Photographic

    St. Francis College and High School, Pool Road, at mouth of Saco River, 1954. The development of this school was begun in 1934, and the first high school class was graduated in 1941. First college class graduated in June 1954. On the other side of the river can be seen the Camp Ellis Pier. "The small pier at left was known as the Town Landing and near it was Indian Spring. The point in center [adjacent to baseball field] was Jordan's Point." ...

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19. 0727b - Print, Photographic

    St. Francis College and High School, and Stella Maris School, Pool Road, at mouth of Saco River, 1954. The brick buildings comprise the St. Francis schools, the white building adjacent is Stella Maris.

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. 0728 - Postcard

    Exterior view of Stella Maris boarding school, Pool Road, Biddeford circa 1955. Stella Maris was a catholic girls school, founded in 1931. It was formerly the Judge Rishworth Jordan house.

    Record Type: Photo