Keywords: Fire, 1902
Item 11118
Great Fire of Houlton, 1902, 1902
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1902-05-18 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 11117
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1902-05-18 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"… Bangor Flood of 1902.Bangor Historical Society 1902 The rain was coming down hard in downtown Bangor on the evening of March 20, 1902."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Flood Exhibit Work
"… sources to find information on the floods of 1902 and 1976 and ultimately writing the text for this exhibit."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
