Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Sanford, ME

Sanford is a city in York County, Maine, and with a population of 21,982 in the 2020 census it is the seventh-largest municipality in the state.

Sanford was first settled in 1739 and incorporated as a town on February 27, 1768, named for Peleg Sanford, and on November 6, 2012, voters approved a charter re-incorporating it as a city, which took effect on January 1, 2013.

Sanford is situated on the Mousam River, which provided water power for its mills, and after the Civil War it developed into a textile manufacturing center connected to markets by the Portland and Rochester Railroad.

In 1867 British-born Thomas Goodall established Goodall Mills beside the Mousam River, which first made carriage robes and blankets and later made mohair plush for railroad seats, carpets, draperies, auto fabrics and military uniform fabric.

The mill town's population swelled from 2,700 in 1880 to over 9,000 in 1910, and in 1914 the Goodall family built Goodall Park, a 784-seat roofed stadium that is now a historic site.

In 1954 Burlington Mills, then the nation's largest textile firm, bought Sanford Mills and then closed it, leaving 3,600 people unemployed, and in November 1955 NBC dramatized Sanford's comeback on television in The Town that Refused to Die.

As of the 2020 census Sanford had 9,146 households and 9,923 housing units, and the median age of its residents was 41.3 years.

Sanford includes the village of Springvale, and the city is served by ZIP codes 04073 for Sanford and 04083 for Springvale.

Sanford covers 48.75 square miles, of which 47.79 square miles is land, and it borders Shapleigh, Acton, Alfred, Kennebunk, Wells, North Berwick and Lebanon.

The Goodall family also helped build Sanford's library, town hall, hospital, airport and golf club, and a bronze statue of Thomas Goodall erected by the citizens in 1917 stands in Central Park.