Sardine Factory, So. Gouldsboro Me, 180.

Sardine Factory, So. Gouldsboro Me, 180.

Sardine Factory, So. Gouldsboro Me. Sardine Factory, Industry, Food Processing, Waterfront, Rocky Coast, Beach, Pier, Wharf A. B. Holt built Frenchman's Bay Packing Company on the shore of Bunker's Cove in South Gouldsboro in 1901. The sardine packing company registered its trademark for the "Eden" brand name with the U. S. Patent Office in 1911. In October 1919 "The Canner" a weekly publication in Chicago, Illinois, reported that A. B. Holt of the Frenchman's' Bay Packing Co. while in New York expressed the opinion that the Maine sardine industry "is in a favorable condition and prices are apt to soon show an upward tendency". It is unknown when the company closed down. Today the only remains of the original factory are some large granite foundation stones on the offshore ledges. Two other factories populated the shore in South Gouldsboro in the late 1800s, a lobster factory and a clam factory. The lobster factory was dismantled in 1886 and moved to Prospect Harbor to become the Stinson sardine canning factory. The clam factory, built in 1903 on the site of the old lobster factory, has long since disappeared, leaving no trace. The Stinson cannery at Prospect Harbor was the last of Maine's working sardine factories. It closed in 2010.