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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"Corn Canning Industry By 1913, Maine employed 7,000 people in corn factories, one-third of them women."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - E. S. Dingley Corn Shop, Farmington Falls, ca. 1895

"Dingley Corn Shop where corn from area was husked and canned. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - E. S. Dingley Corn Shop crew and huskers, Farmington Falls, ca. 1900

"Dingley Corn Shop in Farmington Falls. Bushels of corn are in foreground. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Burnham Morrill Corn Factory, Farmington, ca. 1930

"Burnham Morrill Corn Factory, Farmington, ca. 1930 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description Postcard of the Burnham…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Corn was canned extensively, with other vegetables and fruit handled. While under the management of Merrill Bros., meat was also canned. Charles E."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Carolyn Stone - People Chester Greenwood - People Corn Canning Industry - Agriculture Culture - Main Page Early Settlers - Main Page Elizabeth…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"The soil was quite good and yielded good crops of corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, etc. Later, hops were grown and exported to the Boston area for beer…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… wagon & carriage builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry. All of the boys in the family had that same tendency to the creative and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… name of “sweet corn.” (More about Farmington's Corn Canning Industry.) Challenges Burnham and Morrill Canning Factory at Center Bridge The…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in the early springtime or the tall stalks of corn on the Sandy River Flats, modern-day Farmington is still highly influenced by its early agrarian…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"Corn Yield Contest in Maine. She grew 175 bushels per acre of a hybrid corn. Comparing her yield with Clarence Titcomb's, she grew 2,450 lbs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill

"… grist mill allowed the first crops of wheat and corn to be milled into flour, which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… operation by buying equipment from a defunct corn cannery. The original brand name was Ossipee, but Snow soon began using his family name."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with other Mainers, were…"

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… from the Plymouth Plantation with a cargo of corn, the product of one of the new colony’s first successful harvests, hoping to establish trade with…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"They planted beans, corn, and squash and hunted deer and other wild game as well. Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"Farming Walter Joyce comparing height of corn, Swan's Island, ca. 1930Swan's Island Historical Society Farming was always a part of the fabric…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - 1840 U.S. Census Questions

"… did you grow in 1839? Barley? Oats? Rye? Indian corn? Buck wheat? Potatoes? 5. How many pounds of wool? Hops? Wax? 6."

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"… 175 bushels oats and barley, quite an amount of corn, beans, &c., also 1200 pounds pork and 500 pounds beef."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"… exhibited and judged, included: wheat, barley, corn and flax, along with hives of bees, pumpkins, apples and clover seed."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"They planted corn and rye upon the burnt land. Before the snows of the following winter fell, these energetic first settlers had hewn timber…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"In 1780 he planted and harvested corn, turnips and potatoes. He put the corn in a storage crib that he built and the potatoes and turnips in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Lowell’s bought oats and corn in lots of five or six carloads. They bought flour by the carload too."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Corn and apples were sent across the country. In April, 1871, a group of farmers organized the Sandy River Cheese Company, the first in the state."