A factory where food, especially fruits and vegetables, are processed and sealed in cans for storage and sale.
From 'can' (the metal container) plus '-ery' (a place where something is done). Canneries emerged in the 1800s when canning technology became industrial.
Canneries transformed food storage and created one of the first industrial assembly lines before cars—thousands of workers, mostly women and immigrants, processed massive amounts of food in coordinated factory lines!
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