Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"The factory was constructed in a U-shape and was laid out so that a truck chassis would enter on one side of the building and progress through…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"This factory had been organized by local farmers, and the farmers named the factory the Sandy River Cheese Company."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Starch Factory, c. 1965

"Potato Starch Factory, c. 1965 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description A step in the process of producing potato starch…"

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…"

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."

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

"… dam, lumber mill, grist mill, clover and starch factory. Later a school house was built. John Elliot had built a tavern in 1807, it had a bar and…"

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…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Men gathered the herring from weirs, transported them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans."

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…"

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…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… whistle, standard aural alarm of the era from factories to locomotives. Dual Steam WhistlesWest Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association By 1887…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… as late as the 1950s farmers hauled potatoes to starch factories. Former potato farmer Larry Park talks about starch factories in Presque Isle."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… one girl from each factory and there were seven factories and I was the one chosen at the Union factory."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"His father John A. Tompson was a trucker who transported goods and produce in the city. Frederick Tompson graduated from Portland High School in 1876…"

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

"… including a gristmill, saw mills and even a clam factory, which existed briefly during the 1950's F.S."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… attracted other industries such as oilcloth factories, iron works, shoe factories, a sandpaper mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order…"

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

"A butter factory, Carrabassett Creamery, was organized as a stock company in Nov.1899. The factory was built near the bridge crossing Gilman Stream."

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…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"Later it produced wooden lasts for the shoe factories. Boston Flint Company sandpaper mill beside Vaughan Brook.Courtesy of Sumner 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…"

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."

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

"… were sawmills, the first built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses."

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

"… conversion of the grist mill to a gold extraction factory. A “machine room” and a “laboratory” were constructed."