Maine Memory Network

Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 131 Preble Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Texas Company (Preble Street Station) Use: Oil Tanks & Pit

2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Oil Tanks & Pit

Miller residence, Mount Desert, 2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2003 Location: Mount Desert Client: Natalie Miller Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect

Merrin residence, Cortlandt Manor, New York, 1987-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–2003 Location: Cortlandt Client: Seth Merrin Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

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.

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

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…"

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…"

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