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William Underwood Factory at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
William Underwood Factory at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-3718
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
Description:
...A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor...

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William Underwood Factory at McKinley.pdf
…Desert in the early 1850s at Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …As early as 1853, a lobster cannery was built by Boston parties at Southwest Harbor. …the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in the early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar …Harbors, objections began to be made to the factory and its odor.
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-3592
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
Description:
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times

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Freeman's Wharf.pdf
…Farnsworth Sardine Factory The Southwest Harbor Packing Company Seacoast Canning Company Addison Packing Company Stinson Canning Company Great Harbor Marina …Freeman Wharf at the head of Southwest Harbor in about 1885. …The more such industries well conducted the better." - Bar Harbor Record, January 7, 1892. …s plants in Prospect Harbor and in Southwest Harbor. (All or part of the business was at one time called Wass & Stinson.)