Keywords: fire warden
Item 19064
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1920 Location: Ripogenus Media: Photographic print
Item 100211
Fire-Wards of Portland warnings, 1818
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1818 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"… the Axis!" Protecting Our Community Block Warden ArmbandBangor Historical Society After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Block Wardens were…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843
"Warden Miller lived in a house on the site of the current Masonic Temple on Main Street. Warden Rose resigned within four years of his appointment…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
