Keywords: Brooklin Industry
Item 12758
Canneries prior to Brooklin Boat Yard, Brooklin, 1959
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1959 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12755
Boatyard at Center Harbor, Brooklin, 1995
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1995 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
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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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Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry
"… Collaborators: Alicia Allen, Lauren Doolittle, Brooklin Eaton, Abby Ford, Bennie Johnson, Brian Leger, Greggory Lynde, Michael Nevells, Cooper…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication
"Cables to the mainland were run first to Brooklin, then to Burnt Point, and lastly to Bass Harbor. A "cable call" was an expensive occurrence so it…"