Keywords: corn industry
Item 27496
E. S. Dingley Corn Shop crew and huskers, Farmington Falls, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 27451
E. S. Dingley Corn Shop, Farmington Falls, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Farmington Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 116479
Portland Packing Company, Portland, 1916-1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916–1918 Location: Portland; Skowhegan Client: Portland Packing Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
"Corn Canning Industry By 1913, Maine employed 7,000 people in corn factories, one-third of them women."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - E. S. Dingley Corn Shop, Farmington Falls, ca. 1895
"Dingley Corn Shop where corn from area was husked and canned. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
Story
Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila
Animal agriculture's ties to climate change
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