[[907 BROADWAY]] (BENNETT in Fairhaven) ... #Industrial  ... ... ... ...  ... ... ... ... Description: AMERICAN CANNERY CO  . Location: 907 BROADWAY (BENNETT in Fairhaven). Era: 1898/1966 Style: 3-story MASONRY ___ SANBORN REVIEW: [[Sanborn 1897]]: ABSENT [[Sanborn 1904]]: present [[Sanborn 1913]]: present [[Sanborn 1950]]: Jeffers dock warehouse number #3 (907) # NEWS AND LITERATURE REVIEW: “Mr. Timson continued there until 1898, when the Pacific Sheet Metal Works, of San Francisco, which had succeeded the Pacific Can Company, decided to build a plant on the Sound and finally located at Fairhaven, it being the center of the fishing industry on the Sound. Mr. Timson was sent to Fairhaven as manager and agent of this corporation, and under his direction a factory was built in 1898 with a capacity of fifteen million cans per season. In 1899 the capacity of the plant was doubled, and in 1901 the American Can Company, of New York, bought out the Pacific Sheet Metal Works, which prior to that had made arrangements for enlarging the capacity of the plant to fifty million per annum. During 1903, new and improved machinery will be installed, which will still further increase the capacity, and employment is now given to three hundred men about nine months of the season. The yearly product now approximates one million dollars, with a pay roll of two hundred thousand dollars. About eight thousand tons of tin plate and two hundred and fifty tons of solder are used.” (Page 370, [[HISTORY OF THE PUGET SOUND COUNTRY]].) Article summarizes the formation of the cannery in 1898 (The Bellingham Herald Mon, Jan 25, 1904 ·Page 3) > “The Pacific Sheet Metal Co. plant was built on Fairhaven's waterfront at Bennett Ave. in 1898. The plant was for the manufacturing of salmon cans. The big brick warehouse was built in 1901 after the American Can Co. acquired the plant. The building was 75 feet wide, 150 feet long, and 60 feet high. The walls at the base were 20 inches thick. About 1906, the entire plant was sold to the [[Pacific American Fisheries]], the huge salmon cannery at Fairhaven. The former can factory became warehouses for canned salmon from Alaska. Later, George Jeffers acquired the buildings which were demolished by Noel Thompson and Clarence Peterson. The brick was cleaned and shipped to Seattle.” (galen, looking back, page 185) Aerial photos place demolition between 63-75 March 1966 demolished-[[Jeff Jewell]] ___ [[©2026 NEW WHATCOM PRESS]]