Keywords: fire ruins
Item 35280
Harmon's Corner fire ruins, Biddeford, 1911
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1911-07-08 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 99394
Ruins of Somesville neighborhood fire, Saco, 1908
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1908-09-15 Location: Saco Media: Glass Negative
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
"(Whipple 9) Norumbega Hall ruins, Bangor Fire, 1911 Bangor Public Library The fire spread northward through downtown, destroying Norumbega Hall…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"… were trapped in their cars, and many cars were ruined. Damages to personal property cost over two million dollars."
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
