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Keywords: Fire escapes

Historical Items

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Item 27186

After the Prison Fire, Thomaston, 1923

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1923-09-15 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Item 72952

Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Camden, 1909

Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: 1909 Location: Camden Media: Photographic print

Item 51850

Fleeing the Somesville Fire, Saco, 1908

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1908-09-15 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151760

Opportunity Farm fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.

Item 150940

Fire escape for the Shepley Apartment Bldg., 18 Casco St., Portland, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 150370

Plan of Fire Escapes on Rear of Auburn Hall, Auburn, 1893

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Auburn Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

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Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

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Prisoners of War

Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.

Site Pages

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"No escapes were made. The State of Maine, No. 3, Thomaston, Maine c 1870Thomaston Historical Society A new stone building was erected in 1851."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… possibly used to help run-away slaves hide and escape from those trying to capture them so they could then make their way to Canada."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… four sons and one daughter may have found some escape and respite from the close confines of the Old Ell by playing and sleeping in the loft of the…"

My Maine Stories

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The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily

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Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask

Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork

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The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds