Keywords: Flood of 1896
Item 31106
Kennebec River Flood, Lower Water Street, Hallowell, 1896
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1896 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 29304
Contributed by: Turner Museum and Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Turner Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Poem of the 1896 Flood by William Lewis
"… 1896 Flood by William Lewis Hallowell Flood of 1896 It was March 3, 1896 and there was a flood Everyone was 10 feet under without any food Hope…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods
"… Hallowell Flood 1987Hubbard Free Library The Flood of 87 was one of the worst floods that I think ever happened in the State of Maine."
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
