Maine Memory Network

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."

Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls

"Maine Industrial School for Girls Industrial School for Girls, Winthrop Hill, Hallowell, ca. 1919Hubbard Free Library The purpose of the…"

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

"… Island was home to an Atlantic salmon farm and processing plant that started in the late 1980s. Salmon farming had success in other parts of the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… eight ships of 1100 tons or greater were in the process of construction. Within a year, Captain Simon Shibles built a ship with Maxcy and Mathews…"

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

"It was a traditional process carried out in traditional buildings with traditional tools and implements."

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

"1975Lubec Historical Society Preparing smoked herring was a traditional process, that is, one that changed little in its essentials through the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… history and see the power of maps in the learning process. UMF Arboretum Trail -- First put together by a biology class at University of Maine…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… led to companion industries, such as the processing of the fish catch, mills to process timber and grains, and boat building."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History. Varney, George A., A Gazetteer of the State of Maine…"

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

"Some of the steps in the process of canning are shown. The effort to form a cartel to control what its organizers thought what might be controlled is…"

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

"… investigator, Ansley Hall, tell much about the process, even then, already practiced in Lubec for possibly one hundred years."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Kids at the quarry

"They searched for signs of the once-busy industry, from iron spikes left in the granite to boilers that generated the steam power for the quarry…"

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

"… did you stop because you wanted to or because the industry was going down? S: When the industry went down they closed that factory (Union) and I…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Ramsdell cures first herring by smoke in Lubec, a process learned in Nova Scotia 1798 • Eastport (Moose Island) incorporated – includes Lubec and…"

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

"Lobstering Lobstering has kept the fishing industry on Swan’s Island the major industry from the mid 20th century to today."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… - People Chester Greenwood - People Corn Canning Industry - Agriculture Culture - Main Page Early Settlers - Main Page Elizabeth Akers Allen, née…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"… Swan's Island holds a living history of the industries that have sustained its residents over the centuries."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry

"… to see the rusting remains of the once-busy industry, dug in the dirt for artifacts, and learned about their own family connections to quarry…"

Historic Hallowell - In the Beginning - Raw Materials - Quarrying

"… in Maine the resource first exploited was timber, processed into potash was for export to Britain's soap-making industry."

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

"… decreased role in the national trend toward industrial growth would later become an attraction when the state was sought out by tourists and…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"The ice industry became a big industry in Maine. Ships hauled blocks of ice all the way to Cuba and the West Indies."

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

"… Society Granite quarrying was a successful industry on Swan’s Island from the 1890s to the late 1920s when the depression took hold."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Farmington, Industry and New Vineyard can boast many families with the Norton name; each town benefiting from the industrious nature of the families’…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

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