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Description
This plant was built ca. 1885 as an earlier clam shop was destroyed by fire. This B&M plant employed about twenty eight people. "Shit Creek" was behind the B&M plant where privies rested near one of the creeks off of Jones Creek. Thus the name.
About This Item
- Title: Burnham and Morrill Clam Plant, Scarborough, ca. 1885
- Creator: Bill Bayley
- Creation Date: circa 1885
- Subject Date: circa 1885
- Location: Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Group portraits
- Burnham and Morrill Company
- Employees
- Canneries--Maine--Scarborough
- Streams--Maine
- Clams--Maine--Scarborough
- Shellfish industry--Maine--Scarborough
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Scarborough Historical Society & MuseumPO Box 156, Scarborough, ME 04070-0156
(207) 885-9997
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