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

"They look up from the work of pickling the herring. The two were working in traditional space that could have been in a daguerreotype made in a…"

Lubec Landmarks

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

"… that the fish “are immediately put into the pickling tanks, which have first been partially filled with a weak pickle.” (P. 457)."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"She says, “There was a pickle barrel near the doorway, and we kids would often run down from the schoolhouse at recess to buy one of those big sour…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They cut and split firewood. They pickled, smoked and dried meat and fish. They tended the livestock. They planted the crops and harvested them."

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

"… X Herring pump house: On the end of the Pickling Shed housing for another innovation was constructed."

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

"… involving harvesting herring for smoking and pickling. They joined with local entrepreneurs who shared the idea of canning small herring they…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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