Keywords: Abandoned crew
Item 79083
Pres. Buchanan letter about Bath ship, Washington, 1848
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848 Location: Portland; Washington; Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 82379
CCC 178th, Bog Brook Forest Fire Crew, Flagstaff Camp, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1938 Location: Madison; Flagstaff Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… to save the ship, all were futile and the owners abandoned the cargo, leaving it to the insurance underwriters."
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"The crew wisely halted and prepared to abandon work for the day. The Narrows and bridge construction, Lubec, 1961 Lubec Historical Society…"
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
