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Factory
The Tobacco Factory of Maia, considered one of the oldest on the island
St. Michael, labored in the parish of Maia between 1871 and 1988. This factory was founded
by Manuel Bento de Sousa, with their children and grandchildren as continuing his work,
death of its founder. From the 80, and due to competition by
other business as well as weak investment in recent years,
had been doing in the factory, this começaa entering a phase of decline, closing
its doors in 1988. The structure of buildings dissociated themselves from their duties
but remained alive the memory of the technical processes of agricultural production and industrial
tobacco. Thus, the Tobacco Factory of Maia, in addition to being an irreplaceable March
collective memory of the local community is also an element strongly characterizes
identification and for everyone who visits the Eastern Zone of the municipality of Ribeira Grande.
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