Keywords: Great Main Street Fire
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 16307
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1902-05-17 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 65231
77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 111970
J. B. Brown town houses on West St., Portland, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 111972
J. B. Brown flats on Clifford St., Portland, 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"Over the course of 15 hours, the fire destroyed 267 buildings, 55 acres and caused over $3 million in damages throughout downtown Bangor and up…"
Site Page
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Story
Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market
Story
Rachel Tourigny: Richness of growing up in a big, "poor" family
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A most vivid and heartwarming account of life during a simpler time