Turtle Cannery Museum

The Turtle Cannery Museum sits inside the original processing plant for the Hyatt Canning Company. A wide, low building covered in corrugated metal, it housed the town’s primary industry for decades. In the early nineteen hundreds, thousands of green sea turtles arrived here from the Caribbean, destined for soup pots across the country. Workers hauled the live turtles onto the wooden docks, processing them on-site until the supply dwindled and the factory closed its heavy doors in the nineteen seventies.