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Historical Items

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Item 12759

Blueberry Cannery, Interior, Brooklin, 1935

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 12760

Blueberry Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1933

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1933 Location: Brooklin Media: 35mm phototransparency from printed page

Item 1467

Rosemary brand Maine blueberries can label, Coumbia Falls, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Columbia Falls Media: ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Canning: A Maine Industry

Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.

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Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin

By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.

Site Pages

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Growth in the tourism industry provides opportunity for future economic development. The opening of the Roosevelt International Bridge linking Lubec…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"From the start of the strawberry season, through blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, the women were busily filling every container."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… White Cap, and Glassface offer summertime blueberry picking and hiking. The Androscoggin River and its tributaries are now relatively free of…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker

Vignettes from Downeast Maine