Keywords: packing plant
Item 26584
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 31430
Maine Egg Producers, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1960 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
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.
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.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
"Maine was ranked third in the country in corn packing, behind Illinois and New York. The season lasted a mere three weeks."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889
"… this as one of the finest, to see a car literally packed as they were all day & evening chiefly by strangers riding for fun and sake of saying they…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima