Maine Memory Network

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"Logs could be floated, and steam-driven factories were set up along the river banks. After 1900, when the first permanent bridge across the stream in…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… three parsonages, seven schools, two starch factories, five shingle mills, 305 houses, 362 barns, and 71 miles of roads."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Its first factory began operations at the end of Seavey’s Landing Road in Blue Point before 1869, using the same canning process as that used for…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"… for themselves to the spot where the old cotton factory now stands in Hallowell. No hearth fire burned for their welcome; no door opened at their…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… 1915Thomaston Historical Society A broom factory was established at the prison and in 1899, a newspaper reports that railroad carloads of…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"Fish factory worker, Marion Stinson, Swan's Island, ca. 1990Swan's Island Historical Society The business employed seven or eight islanders full…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"Wearing such a garment to protect his clothes indicates that Soule worked at a trade or in a factory, perhaps in the local textile mill."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Though men did most of the heavy lifting at the factory, unloading the boats and hauling crates, the packers were mostly women and children, valued…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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

"Some of the lobster canning factories were converted to can clams instead. In 1895 H.W. Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were…"

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"… City Hall, started business, worked in schools, factories and farms. Organizations like the Row House, that works to preserve Hallowell’s…"

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"A child that works in a factory might work eight to twelve hours for a day, six days a week, to earn one dollar."

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

"Burnham Morrill Corn Factory, Farmington, ca. 1930 Farmington Historical Society Several crops were bountiful, including beans and corn and were a…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Brown & Co. constructed first sardine factory on Water Street 1882 • The Passamaquoddy Ferry Co. founded for the purpose of running a steam ferry…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… In 1871 Edward O’Brien established a shoe factory in the Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner to boost the flagging economy."

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… men were in the military, women went to work in factories to help make machines. Because of this new need for women in the workplace, it meant that…"

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"A pavilion for movies and dances, a starch factory, doctors’ offices, a rake factory, a hotel, and many other businesses came and went."

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

"American Can with its factory on that newer waterfront street had brought change to the canning industry."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… bank, churches of several denominations, various factories including a furniture factory, livery stables, hardware stores, blacksmith shops…"

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

"The factory was successful and ultimately employed thousands of people. By 1959 Snow’s had become part of the Borden Corporation."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other businesses that followed also flourished because people…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Rivers all provided water power for mills and factories producing products of every description: lumber, paper, flour, leather, shoes, toothpicks…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… a sawmill, grist mill, salt box factory, starch factory, wagon shop, novelty mill, carding factory, dye house, fulling mill, clover mill, and…"