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Description
Ruth Pierce Crocker (1794-1879) of Portland wrote to her sister Hannah and niece Phebe Sanborn in Baldwin about the Great Portland Fire of 1866.
Crocker, a widow, noted that her home (44 Brackett Street) was spared, but commented on the numbers of businesses, banks, churches, and homes destroyed and the efforts to provide relief for the victims of the fire.
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About This Item
- Title: Ruth Pierce Crocker account of Portland fire, 1866
- Creator: Ruth Pierce Crocker
- Creation Date: 1866-06-06
- Subject Date: 1886-07-04
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 4210
- Collection: Pierce family collection
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Fires--Maine--Portland
- Great Fire, Portland, Me., 1866--Personal narratives
- Letters
- Pierce family
- Pierce, Ruth Crocker, 1794-1879--Correspondence
- Portland (Me.)--Fire, 1866
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