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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"Fire at Deering High Deering High School fire, Portland, 1921Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media On May 20th, 1921, Deering High School…"

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

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

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"One of the new departments was a pediatric ward, which is a section for treating diseases and other things in children."

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"… could stay on late at night, and the risk of fires from the candles was gone. Wire mills stayed about the same throughout the rest of the 1800s and…"

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"… Stevens House X John Calvin Stevens, Portland, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society The Wil C. Johnson home (c."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… was often published here before it arrived in Portland. Hallowell’s ship-owning merchants, anxious to protect their investments by manning their…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… to were: Newburyport, Salem, Thomaston, Boston, Portland, Washington City, New York, and New Bedford."

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"Cliff" and the "Maude M. Morey" had been towed to Portland for repair. Both boats were bought by the government, hauled into the Casco Bay, and sank…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"Jonathan Morgan, Portland, ca. 1869Maine Historical Society At the opposite end of the settler spectrum from the Vaughans were the young people who…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… so worried that the creation of the Surry Fire Department, which had been controversial at earlier town meetings, solidly supported the formation…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Carleton before the fire destroyed the structure in 1851. Probably built by the Fox family in the 1790s, the two story wooden hip-roofed building…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… today housing the Town Offices, the Town Police Department and a commercial store. The second floor contains a hall and meeting room used for town…"

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

"Strong's Fire Department Fires were always (and still are) disastrous and frightening events. John Rounds was an ardent crusader for the organization…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"“Grasses of a Salt Marsh.” Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. Moulton, Augustus."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"There was another fire as well; this took place in 1895. This fire was very destructive to the City of Bath."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… no nearby doctors, hospitals, grocery stores or department stores. Long distance communication occurred by written letter and mail."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"What they did not know was that the fire was spreading very quickly throughout the block. It had spread all the way from the stables to Percy's…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… years passed before Hampden’s first fire department opened. Hampden boasts the first Masonic Lodge in the vicinity, organized under the name…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Along with these national chain stores, two local department stores (Senter’s and Bath Department Store), several men’s clothing stores and beauty…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"The Corporation also subsidized the fire department and police department. Eventually it provided the first street and traffic lights."

Prince Memorial Library

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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