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

"… Section 2: Six Steps in Producing Smoked Herring: 1990 and 1896 Sluicing the herring into wooden tanks."

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

"(P. 456). Wheeled herring cart, Lubec, ca. 1970Lubec Landmarks Wheeled herring cart: Left under cover when McCurdy’s closed was this cart, now…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"McCurdy Herring Smokehouse By Edward L. Hawes Introduction Drawn from the collections of the Maine Historical Society, Lubec Historical Society…"

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

"McCurdy Herring Smokehouse Part I: How They Smoked Herring in Lubec Section 1: A Traditional Process in Traditional Buildings McCurdy…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Lorin Herring turned over his half of Herring Brothers to his son Stephen Herring at his retirement."

Lubec Landmarks

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 1 of 3

"… in the next 3 pages: Davis Brothers Furniture Herring Brothers Meats French & Elliott Company Guilford Bed and Breakfast Bangor and Aroostook…"

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"Robert Herring Sr. and Robert Herring Jr. were the the other two founders. In 1803 Robert Low Jr. and Robert Herring Sr."

Lubec, Maine - Exhibits

"… Technology, the Syndicate and Labor McCurdy Herring Smokehouse The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen Klondike…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"So great was the demand for the large herring preferred by the smokehouses that Lubec began sending vessels to the Magdelen Islands in the quest for…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… payment of $5 1797 • Daniel Ramsdell cures first herring by smoke in Lubec, a process learned in Nova Scotia 1798 • Eastport (Moose Island)…"

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

"… with flounder, cod, halibut, haddock, and herring. The work force of Swan’s Islanders from the early homesteading days until the present, was…"

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

"The sardines canned there were really little herring, the same fish that provided the basis of the other mainstay fishery industry in the area…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… in the first family and three weeks later Robert Herring Jr. followed with his family. The three Bennett boys also arrived about this time and…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Charles Herring started a slaughterhouse. The American Legion Hall was built and operated a bowling alley and pool tables."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… of the nineteenth century the in-shore fisheries, herring and lobster, scallops and clams, remained strong."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… in South Blue Hill canned clams, mackerel, and herring. Local men fished through the ice for smelt in the winter, packing them with snow in boxes…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… it on the north side of the river by Robert Herring Jr. and S&J Morgan. It later changed hands a few times, Hobart & Harris Company were among its…"

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

"Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were plentiful at the time. Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the smell of which is…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… 1915 and continued to the late '40s, when the herring market faded and the cost of yearly rebuilding the weir made this historic venture obsolete."

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

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