Four Chicken Barns

Four Chicken Barns

Row of four chicken barns where chickens were grown for Maplewood Poultry, a chicken processer in Belfast, Maine. Feed silos can be seen adjacent to the chicken barns.

At one time Belfast was home to companies that processed, at its zenith, 13.7 million broilers per year. Belfast claimed the title of “Broiler Capitol of the World.” (Broilers are chickens raised for meat). Chicken barns dotted the landscape throughout Waldo County. Maine ranked 10th nationally in broiler processing. The Belfast processers were all closed by 1988.