Keywords: fur farms
Item 111682
Fox fur collar, Portland, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: fur, cotton, plastic
Item 33674
McConnell's Cabins, Scarborough, ca. 1928
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1928 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
When Europeans arrived in North America and disrupted traditional Native American patterns of life, they also offered other opportunities: trade goods for furs. The fur trade had mixed results for the Wabanaki.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms
"People from New York came to buy furs a lot. Furs were expensive, so Gordon’s farms went bankrupt when people stopped buying them."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… established in the 17th century by fishermen and fur traders were supplanted by more stable farming settlements."
