Keywords: Factory stores
Item 7437
Factory Island Department Shoe Store, Saco, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Saco Media: Photo negative
Item 105916
Sawmill and clothespin factory, Davidson, ca. 1908
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1908 Location: Davidson; Davidson Media: Photographic print
Item 38580
486 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Devisees of Clara Lord Use: Store & Factory
Item 50759
10 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Albus R Cobb Use: Store & Factory
Item 110756
B&M store house and canning factory, Portland, 1918-1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918–1944 Location: Portland; Farmington; Livermore Falls Client: Burnham and Morrill Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 109545
Store House for Cowen Woolen Co., Lewiston, 1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Lewiston Client: Cowen Woolen Co. Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Exhibit
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.
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.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864
"… the wooden store as it was in 1850 and the old factory before it was rebuilt and the brick store as it was rebuilt and as it appeared in 1864."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory
"This factory had been organized by local farmers, and the farmers named the factory the Sandy River Cheese Company."
Story
The Village Cafe - A Place We Called Home
by Michael Fixaris
The Village Cafe was more than a restaurant. It was an extension of our homes and our families.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
