Keywords: Great Freshet
Item 22718
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896-03-02 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Item 22760
Great Freshet, Brunswick, 1896
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896-03-02 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
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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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"A freshet is described as a flash flood or flood resulting from a spring thaw. These freshets battered crops, homes and mills."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… there “occurred the first of a series of great freshets, which from time to time have overflowed the valley of the river, entailing more or less…"
