Keywords: Brush leader
Item 35151
Herring weir leader, Lubec, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 35155
Herring weir brush leader, Lubec, ca. 1935, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
"… Lubec • First Christian Church built in Lubec • Brush weirs for the capture of herring came into wide use in Passamaquoddy • Census results – 1,430…"
Site Page
"Smokehouses and the many brush weirs that supplied herring lined the shore. Weir construction also brought a measure of prosperity to area farmers…"
