Maine Memory Network

House on Broadway in Bangor - Fire of 1911

Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: 1911 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Beginning of the Bangor fire, 1911

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1911-04-30 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

The Bethel Inn, Bethel, 1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911 Location: Bethel Client: Dr. J. G. Gehring Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Portland City Hall mechanical drawings, Portland, 1909-1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1911 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 2 of 2

"Views of Bangor’s Big Fire, April 30, 1911. Bangor, ME: Frank E. Davis and Leyland Whipple, [1911]. Bangor Museum and Center for History. Print."