Maine Memory Network

Old and new fire lookout towers, Depot Mountain, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: circa 1920 Location: T14 R16 WELS Media: Photographic print

Sally Mountain fire tower, 1932

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1932 Location: T5 R1 NBKP Media: Photographic print

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

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.

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… for the Portland conflagration of 1866." (“Bangor Fire”) The fire began around 4:00 on the afternoon of April 30th in a hay shed owned by J."