Category: Economics, Agriculture, Blueberries
Item 12759
Blueberry Cannery, Interior, Brooklin, 1935
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12760
Blueberry Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1933 Location: Brooklin Media: 35mm phototransparency from printed page
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
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.
Story
Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker
Vignettes from Downeast Maine