Keywords: creamery
Item 17131
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland; Poultney Media: Wood, metal
Item 22353
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad
"… Maine Central Rail Road, developed a cattle yard, creamery (Pictur-of W. Farm. Yard with horses, wagons, milk cans-needed) and brought new business…"
Site Page
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village
"… Mill X Chase Hewett Mill X Carrabassett Creamery X East New Portland has a site known as “The Mill District.” It has been the site of…"