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3 unusual facts about Biddeford


Marion Sandler

Born Marion Osher on October 17, 1930 to Samuel and Leah Osher, Sandler grew up in Biddeford, Maine.

Spurwink School

Spurwink School(sometimes referred to "Spurwink Services" or "Spurwink") is a school in Portland, Maine with other yet smaller owned campuses in places such as Biddeford, Maine serving children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with autism and other behavioral special needs, (often kids under elementary, secondary, and nursery level).

Werner von Clemm

Werner C. von Clemm (27 September 1897 - 14 April 1989, Biddeford, Maine) was born into a German family that married into German nobility, the Nazi party and prominent American families.


Bernard Osher

He spent his early years in southern Maine, owning and running a large hardware store on Main Street in Biddeford as well as a big summer amusement park called Palace Playland in nearby Old Orchard Beach.

Gilbert Patten

He entered Corinna Union Academy at fourteen, but when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop.

GWI.net

In 1997, Biddeford Internet Corporation completed statewide network access in Maine and changed its name to Great Works Internet, in honor of the Great Works River - a 27-mile long river in Southwestern Maine.

James B. Longley, Jr.

Longley was elected as part of the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, narrowly defeating Dennis L. Dutremble, the Democratic State Senate President from Biddeford.

Maine State Route 5

The route runs northwest from Saco, passes very briefly through a Northwest corner of Biddeford, and intersects U.S. Route 202 near the Lyman-Waterboro line.


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