Biddeford, Maine Biddeford, Maine Official seal of Biddeford, Maine Biddeford is positioned in Maine Biddeford - Biddeford Location inside the state of Maine State Maine Biddeford is a town/city in York County, Maine, United States.
Twin town/city of Saco, Biddeford includes the resort improve of Biddeford Pool, Fortunes Rocks and Granite Point.
Biddeford is a principal populace center of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford urbane statistical area.
The first European to settle at Biddeford was physician Richard Vines in the winter of 1616-17 at Winter Harbor, as he called Biddeford Pool.
This 1616 landing by a European predates the Mayflower landing in Plymouth, Massachusetts, (located 100 miles to the south) by approximately four years, a fact that is overlooked in much of New England lore. In 1630, the Plymouth Company granted the territory south of the River Swanckadocke to Dr.
Biddeford was first incorporated as the Town of Saco in 1653. Roger Spencer was granted the right in 1653 to build the first sawmill.
In 1688, Fort Mary was assembled near the entrance to Biddeford Pool. The town was reorganized in 1718 as Biddeford, after Bideford, a town in Devon, England, from which some pioneer had emigrated.
Biddeford was incorporated as a town/city in 1855. Biddeford's name is engraved near the top level of The Pilgrim Monument, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, along with the names of some of the earliest metros/cities and suburbs in New England. During World War II the Biddeford Pool Military Reservation was established from 1942 to 1945, on what is now the Abenakee Golf Club.
Tugboat Hersey tied up at Bragdon's Wharf, Biddeford, 1912 Biddeford is positioned at 43 28 27 N 70 26 46 W (43.474111, -70.446157). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 59.08 square miles (153.02 km2), of which 30.09 square miles (77.93 km2) is territory and 28.99 square miles (75.08 km2) is water. Situated beside Saco Bay on the Gulf of Maine, Biddeford is drained by the Little River and the Saco River.
It is bordered by the town/city of Saco to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the suburbs of Dayton and Lyman to the west, and the suburbs of Kennebunkport and Arundel to the south.
The Little River forms a portion of the border between Biddeford and the Goose Rocks neighborhood of Kennebunkport, in Biddeford's most southerly region (Granite Point).
East Point, positioned on the peninsula of Biddeford Pool, is the easternmost point in York County.
Timber Island, the most southerly point in the City of Biddeford, lies in Goosefare Bay at the mouth of the Little River, and is accessible at low tide from Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport.
The town/city has almost 15 miles (24 km) of frontage along the Saco River, and an Atlantic coastline on which the seaside neighborhoods of Hills Beach, Biddeford Pool, Fortunes Rocks and Granite Point are located.
Biddeford includes Wood Island Light, a lighthouse positioned about a mile offshore from Biddeford Pool.
While Maine (as a whole) is politically and colloquially known as part of Northern New England, Biddeford's geography technically places it more in line with Central New England.
Distances from Biddeford to county-wide cities: Portland, Maine: 15 miles (24 km) Portsmouth, New Hampshire: 30 miles (48 km) Manchester, New Hampshire: 78 miles (125 km) Bangor, Maine: 150 miles (242 km) New York City, New York: 285 miles (459 km) Fort Kent, Maine: 330 miles (531 km) According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Biddeford has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The median age in the town/city was 38.3 years.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.65 percent White, 0.64 percent African American, 0.40 percent Native American, 0.99 percent Asian, 0.03 percent Pacific Islander, 0.18 percent from other competitions, and 1.12 percent from two or more competitions.
There were 7,636 homeholds of which 28.4 percent had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.4 percent were married couples living together, 12.2 percent had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.1 percent were non-families.
29.7 percent of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 11.1 percent had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
22.1 percent of the populace were under the age of 18, 11.1 percent from 18 to 24, 29.5 percent from 25 to 44, 21.8 percent from 45 to 64, and 15.5 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
About 8.6 percent of families and 13.8 percent of the populace were below the poverty line, including 19.8 percent of those under age 18 and 10.3 percent of those age 65 or over.
Biddeford is one of Maine's fastest-growing commercial centers, due to its close adjacency to the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire and to northern Massachusetts.
In late 2006, a 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) shopping center known as The Shops at Biddeford Crossing opened, with 20 stores and five restaurants.
Biddeford is home to large establishments including Southern Maine Health Care and the University of New England, a fast-growing school positioned along the coast which includes Maine's only medical school, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. The town/city also possesses a wide array of improve facilities including enhance beaches, an ice arena, a full-service YMCA, and one school which has been recently recognized as a National School of Excellence.
Anchoring Biddeford's historic downtown are Mc - Arthur Public Library and Biddeford's City Theater.
Biddeford has a number of properties and two Historic Districts entered into the National Register of Historic Places. The newest addition is the Main Street Historic District, entered into the National Register on December 24, 2009.
Other downtown National Register properties include the Biddeford-Saco Mills Historic District, Biddeford City Hall, Dudley Block and the U.S.
National Register properties outside of downtown and in the Biddeford Pool region include the John Tarr House, First Parish Meetinghouse, Fletcher's Neck Lifesaving Station and the James Montgomery Flagg House. Biddeford was the easterly end of the now-defunct New England Interstate Route 11, which ended in Manchester, Vermont.
State Route 111, which travels through Biddeford's chief commercial corridor, is now numbered in Old Route 11's place.
Biddeford Municipal Airport is positioned two miles south of the central company district.
The first part of Black Mirror II, a 2009 PC adventure game advanced by Cranberry Production, takes place in Biddeford.
Biddeford Historical Society Heart of Biddeford Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce a b "American Fact - Finder".
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Biddeford, Boston: Russell In and About Biddeford Article on Biddeford Pool Military Reservation at Fort - Wiki.com Climate Summary for Biddeford, Maine "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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City of Biddeford website.
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project.
Maine State Library.
"New Hampshire Governor Henry Brewer Quinby".
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A elected history website and exhibit space created by Biddeford's cultural improve and hosted by the Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society.
History of Saco and Biddeford by George Folsom.
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