Keywords: oil tanks
Item 52077
Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 52073
Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 70674
Assessor's Record, 131 Preble Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Texas Company (Preble Street Station) Use: Oil Tanks & Pit
Item 37460
2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Oil Tanks & Pit
Item 111353
Miller residence plan and section, Mount Desert, 2003
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2003 Location: Mount Desert Client: Natalie Miller Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect
Item 149086
Merrin residence preliminary garden plan, Cortlandt Manor, NY, 1987-2003
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–2003 Location: Cortlandt Client: Seth Merrin Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island
Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.
Exhibit
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2
"… the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks. Later in the 1940s and 50s, the waterfront was used by people along Water Street and a…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3
"… with debris and oil as two 10,000 gallon fuel tanks were breached and their contents spilled into the river and throughout the mill; machinery was…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down