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Description
Cummingstown, or shoeville (in the foreground of this aerial view) was a neighborhood where many employees of the David Cummings & Company shoe factory lived. The factory can be seen in the center of the top third of the photograph.
The Cummings factory building on Norton Street was constructed about 1872. It later operated as the South Berwick Shoe, Inc., and, finally, as the Duchess Shoe Company. As of 2016, the building still stands, but lost all ties to the shoe manufacturing trade in the early 1990s, when it was renovated into an apartment complex.
About This Item
- Title: South Berwick Village, ca. 1930
- Creator: Hall's Studio
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: South Berwick, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19.4 cm x 24.2 cm
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Factories--Maine--South Berwick
- Footwear
- Men--Maine--South Berwick
- Shoe industry--Maine--South Berwick
- Shoemaking--Maine--South Berwick
- South Berwick (Me.)
People
Other Keywords
- Cummings
- Cummings Factory
- Cummingsville
- Factory
- Factory workers
- Leather
- Leatherwork
- Mill
- Mill workers
- Norton Street
- Shoe industry
- Shoemakers
- Shoetown
- South Berwick
- The Plains
For more information about this item, contact:
Old Berwick Historical SocietyP.O. Box 296; Corner of Main and Liberty Streets, South Berwick, ME 03908
(207) 384-0000
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