Keywords: Chicken industry
Item 16570
Ceramic Chicken Waterer, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Littleton Media: Ceramic
Item 16569
Ball Mason jar chicken waterer, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Littleton Media: Glass
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"Chicken houses Cumberland, c.1960 X Poultry Farming By 1904, poultry farming had become one of the leading industries in North Yarmouth and…"
Site Page
"… shipped were: granite, wood ashes, lumber, sheep, chickens, and ice, according to Sam Webber, local historian."
Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
