Keywords: Fire destruction
Item 98776
Gay Block fire of 1962, Waldoboro
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: 1962-02-22 Location: Waldoboro Media: Photographic print
Item 51581
Damage of Somesville Fire, Saco, 1908
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1908-09-15 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
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 Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"… 1911 edition of the Commercial it was the most destructive fire ever "visited upon a Maine city, save for the Portland conflagration of 1866."…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
"This fire resulted in destruction of the two upper stories and damage to the offices (including the Rumford Falls Times publication facility) and…"
