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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 976 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SACO , a See also:

city of See also:York See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., on the Saco See also:river, and the See also:Atlantic Ocean, opposite See also:Biddeford, with which it is connected by See also:bridges, and 14 m. S.W. of See also:Portland. Pop. (189o), 6095; (1900) 6122 (903 See also:foreign-See also:born); (See also:Toro) 6583. It is served by the See also:Boston & Maine railway, and is connected with Portland by an electric See also:line. The actual municipal limits include an See also:area of about 40 sq. m., but much of this is sparsely settled, and the centre of See also:settlement, or city proper, is about 5 M. above the mouth of the Saco. The city has a public See also:park (See also:Pepperrell Park) of 30 acres, the See also:Dyer Library (1790), containing in 19o8 16,000 volumes, and York See also:Institute (established in 1866 and incorporated in 1867), with a library of 5000 volumes in 1908; and is the seat of See also:Thornton See also:Academy (co-educational), incorporated in 1811, opened in 1813, but closed during 1848-1889 after the .burning of the old See also:building. Old See also:Orchard See also:Beach, in the vicinity, extending along the See also:shore front of the township of Old Orchard (pop. in 1900, 964) and See also:part of the shore fronts of Saco and Scarboro, is a popular summer resort; in See also:August 1907 nearly all the hotels were burnt, but others have since been built. At Saco the river falls about 55 ft. and provides excellent See also:water-See also:power. The city's See also:principal manufactures are See also:cotton goods and cotton-See also:mill machinery. Saco was settled as See also:early as 1631, and was the seat of the See also:Gorges See also:government from 1636 to 1653, when it passed under the See also:jurisdiction of See also:Massachusetts. Until 1762 Saco and Biddeford formed one See also:town or See also:plantation—until 1718 under the name of Saco, and from 1718 to 1762 under the name of Biddeford.

In 1716 See also:

Sir See also:William Pepperrell acquired See also:title to the principal part of what is now Saco, in 1752 this was made a See also:separate See also:parish, and ten years later See also:SACRAMENT it was incorporated as a separate township under the name of Pepperellboro. In 1779 the Pepperrell See also:property was confiscated as that of a loyalist, and in 18o5 the name. of the township was changed to Saco. In 1867 Saco was chartered as a city.

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