Maine Memory Network

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Millinocket Fire Department

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Fire Department Technology

"… in fire technology from the Hallowells first fire engine the cascade hand tub to the Lion and Torrent."

Historic Hallowell - Keeping Us Safe: Fire Department and Police Force

"The history of the fire department and police department are important to Hallowell's heritage."

City of Portland Department of Public Works

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Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"Finally, in the 1960’s and 70’s, the fire department used whistle blows to alert the volunteer fire department members that there was a fire."

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… Philadelphia in 1819, may well be the oldest fire engine in the United States and certainly is the oldest in New England."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"It is a hand tub, a type of fire fighting engine with a stitched together, leather hose. Fire Department, Hallowell, 1843Hubbard Free Library…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"from Harvard in 1941, Tarbell worked for engineering firms in Boston and Bangor before opening his office in Bangor in 1944."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - About Us

"… Meredith Knowles Helen Atwood New Portland Fire Department- Kip Poulin Orono Special Collections department- Fogler Library at UMO About MCHP The…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… joined the experienced Lewiston architect and engineer William H. Stevens to establish the partnership of Stevens and Coombs."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"His father was an engineer, and his mother was an artist. Barrows graduated from Philips Exeter in 1929 and from Harvard in 1934."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Larger fiberglass boats; more powerful diesel engines; and modern equipment, such as hydraulic pot haulers, GPS, radar, etc., enable the lobster…"

Historic Hallowell - Energy

"The steam engines were powered by coal. The funny thing is that as the years went by, the engines needed more coal."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… the maritime law enforcement arm of the Treasury Department, morphed into the U. S. Coast Guard, Yeaton later became known as the "Father of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"A steam engine worked as a heat engine that performed mechanical work using steam as the working fluid."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"Clark (Department Store) at 25 cents each.” So advertised the Lubec Herald newspaper in its June 21, 1911 issue, the 100th birthday of the Town of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Clark Department Store (later Unobskey’s) on Water Street. Clicking on this picture then zooming in reveals the eleven-foot framed etching across the…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… Historical Society Every cannery had its own department for fabricating cans, that is, until the American Can plants in Lubec and Eastport…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… was reported to her, and she would call the fire department. When people heard the alarm in town, they would call her to ask where the fire was."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill was powered by steam engines. The steam engines were installed by Messrs, Freeman, and McClench."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… flourished with drug stores, grocers, hotels, department stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing goods…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… of Post 134 of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Maine, held annual field days and occasional picnics for members' families."

Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… as well as shipwrights and cast the first steam engine used in the Cotton Mill factory. The woodworking shop milled lumber and produced cut lumber…"