Former downtown Eastport sardine can factory sells for $100K

Former downtown Eastport sardine can factory sells for $100K

A large building on Eastport’s downtown waterfront that used to produce cans for Maine’s former sardine industry has been sold. The 30,000-square-foot building on Sea Street used to house the American Can Company, which manufactured metal tins that were widely used by Maine sardine canneries in the industry’s heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The building’s fortunes declined as the industry waned — Maine’s last cannery closed dow…