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Historical Items

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Item 17131

Creamery cabinet, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland; Poultney Media: Wood, metal

Item 22353

Portland Creamery, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 34301

Ardie Flanders creamery truck, Lincoln, ca. 1928

Contributed by: Alan & Gloria Edwards through Lincoln Historical Society Date: circa 1928 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

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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 Pages

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… Maine Central Rail Road, developed a cattle yard, creamery (Pictur-of W. Farm. Yard with horses, wagons, milk cans-needed) and brought new business…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… Mill X Chase Hewett Mill X Carrabassett Creamery X East New Portland has a site known as “The Mill District.” It has been the site of…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The “creamery” still stands. Farmington was considered to have excellent shipping facilities via the rail road. W.W."