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Description of the flag. I happen to have family in Biddeford, and have seen the city's flag in the city council chambers. I think there is likely only one (the one in council) in existence, but here is the best graphic I have for it.
Biddeford (/ ˈbɪdɪfərd / BID-if-ərd) is a city in York County, Maine, United States. It is the principal commercial center of York County. Its population was 22,552 at the 2020 census. [2] The twin cities of Saco and Biddeford include the resort communities of Biddeford Pool and Fortunes Rocks.
Biddeford, city, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., at the falls of the Saco River, opposite Saco, on the Atlantic coast 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Portland. Englishmen led by Richard Vines settled the area in 1630.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
a. Display and Care of Flags: The City of Biddeford follows the Federal and State of Maine Flag Code and Protocol governing the display and care of flags. This policy will be reviewed for possible amendments should the Federal and State of Maine Flag Code be amended. b. Display of Additional Flags Indoors or Outdoors: i.
- Biddeford City Hall
- Biddeford Main Street Historic District
- Biddeford–Saco Mills Historic District
- Dudley Block
- Emery School
- First Parish Meetinghouse
- Flagg, James Montgomery, House
- Fletchers Neck Life-Saving Station
- Richard Vines Monument
- St. Andrews Roman Catholic Parish
Biddeford City Hall was designed by John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) a leading Maine architect. Among Stevens’ major works were the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital (1888), now Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, the City Hall in Portlandand the Sweat Mansion in Portland (1909). The City Hall is a large 3½ story brick building with clock tower and belfry....
In 1846, the earliest surviving commercial building, the Thatcher Hotel, was built on Main Street. While the Free Will Baptist Church was built earlier in 1797, it was not moved to its current location on Jefferson Street until 1850. Construction in downtown Biddeford rapidly expanded in the 1840s due to the success of textile mills along the Saco ...
The Biddeford/Saco Mills Historic District was critical to the development of the region from a remote 17th-century maritime settlement to a major industrial center in the 19th century. Buildings from 1832 to 1958 are representative of the industrial development that fueled growth and expansion of Biddeford and Sacoin the 19th century. The district...
[28-34 Water Street] The Dudley Block is significant for its architecture, and its impact on town planning and commerce. It is an example of a mid-19th century brick commercial building with granite pier and lintle construction on the lower story. The upper floors of tenement housing is similar to Lowell Massachusetts-type industrial communities. T...
The former Emery School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the areas of education and architecture. The School was built in 1912 as a “union” school, replacing four nearby public grammar schools that were consolidated into a single building. This was part of an effort to more efficiently educate a rapidly...
[Old Pool Road; N43° 28′ 30.17″ W70° 24′ 55.73″] The First Parish Congregational Church is the mother church of the First Parish Congregational Church in Saco and the United Church of Christ Congregation in Biddeford. Town meetings were held here during the Revolutionary Period. On December 22, 1774, James Sullivan, a young Biddeford lawyer later t...
[St. Martin’s Lane] Built at his direction in 1910, this cottage on the north shore of Biddeford Pool, was the summer retreat for thirty years of the colorful and prolific illustrator, James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960). At least to 1980 it retained his presence through his extensive first floor murals of the local landscape and the sea views. Flag...
Members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service wearing life jackets stand around a lifeboat at the Fletcher’s Neck Life-Saving Station, built in 1874, at Biddeford Pool. The Stick-style wood frame boathouse is ornamented in various manners, including carved dolphins in the lower corners of the gables. Biddeford PooliBiddeford Pool is a small coastal commu...
This marker was designed and erected in 1909 by William E. Barry, an architect, researcher, artist and writer who lived in Kennebunk. Its location purports to be the site at which Richard Vines, agent of Sir Fernando Gorges in England, and his men spent the winter of 1616-1617 in order to test the climate in the “New World”. According to tradition,...
St. Andre’s Roman Catholic parish is a complex containing five buildings (church, school, convent, rectory and garage) just southeast of downtown Biddeford. The rectory, convent and church were built starting in1900. These three the rectory, convent and church are crucial to the historic district. Stylistically the church is Romanesque, the rectory...
These are the current official flags of the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States. Dates in parentheses denote when the territory's current flag was adopted by its respective political body.
Biddeford is a city located in southern Maine. It was once a booming town full of textile mills, the service and manufacturing industries are the major city employers. Approximately 33% of the population speaks French, due to the influx of French-Canadian immigrants to the city's mills in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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