Keywords: stable fire
Item 76562
Hose Wagon, Androscoggin Fire Company, Topsham, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Town of Topsham Date: circa 1895 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Item 100211
Fire-Wards of Portland warnings, 1818
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1818 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
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.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: The Story of the Heywood Tavern
The story of the Heywood Tavern in Skowhegan.
Site Page
"In December 1966, a fire erupted at Wallace’s Garage on the corner of Main Street and Summit Road. Five major buildings, and several smaller ones…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"These businesses existed largely to supply food and transportation to the Asticou Inn’s summer guests. The livery stable operation was short-lived…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
