Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… the idea of canning small herring they called “sardines” to compete with real sardines from Europe."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Toft, John D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… and also Customs Collector, the personal diary of sardine mogul Jacob C. Pike contains daily weather commentary."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Plant at Mill Creek later functioned as a sardine factory, operated by the Standard Sardine Company."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… the housing for the pump, the flexible hose that extended down into the hold of the sardine carrier, and the exterior part of the sluiceway."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… daughter of Bion Moses Pike, owner of the Lubec Sardine Co., who had donated the land to the town for the Civil War Soldiers’ monument."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… the Lubec waterfront, still an active herring/sardine economy though in decline from peak years in the 1940s."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… By July, 1808 the timber tower and a keeper’s house were complete though the exact date of first illumination is lost to history."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"The building was divided up into “houses,” generally three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails” in them."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"There was “putting the herring in the house by degrees,” the “handing up” and the ‘handing down,” all at the right times."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"In 1895 H.W. Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were plentiful at the time. Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"The sardine factory alone employed 100 people at the height of its success. A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal…"

Milbridge Historical Society

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South Portland Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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