| Work was starting in a new plant in
Randolph on this day in 1906.
The Palmer Packing Company had just opened their packing plant
right beside the railroad. It was three stories high, and they had
been testing and tweaking machinery for the past several days.
Palmer was prepared to process, can and ship corn. The corn would
be removed from the ears on the third floor, travel through the
silker to remove the silk on the second floor, and pass through
the cooker, wiper and cooling tanks on the first floor.
Local newspapers reported the corn cannery as one of the largest
and best equipped in the country.
At
right, historic image courtesy Vermont
Historical Society, inset is a Vermont Book Of Days photograph
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Historic
image of construction underway at the Palmer Packing
Plant on Hull Street in Randolph. Note the three workers standing
atop the chimney on the scaffolding. Inset: a rather forlorn looking
plant, now used for miscellaneous storage.
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