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Item 4152

Flake yard, Portland, 1854

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 101359

Studley fish house and flakeyard, Monhegan, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print

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Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin

By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Flake Yard, Portland, 1854Maine Historical Society The fishing industry Before the advent of refrigeration on vessels, Maine's fishing villages…"