Keywords: fish factories,
Item 12766
Women workers at Farnsworth Fish Cannery, Brooklin, 1920
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12767
Women employees, Farnsworth Fish Cannery, Brooklin, 1920
Contributed by: An individual through Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory
"This factory had been organized by local farmers, and the farmers named the factory the Sandy River Cheese Company."
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"Fishing Medicinal fish oil factory on Johnson Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1910Swan's Island Historical Society By the 1800s fishing became more…"
