Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… crops of potatoes, rye, beans and pumpkins on burned over land. Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"Mr. Rose recorded in January of 1901, "The I. O. O. F. Block burned down this evening about eleven." The architecture indicates that the current…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"On June 17, 1912 this mill district burned and a stock company was formed and Mr. C.H. Bartlett soon rebuilt a modern wood turning plant."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The mill burned in February 1912 but was quickly rebuilt. Another plant was built in the early 1920s to make clothespins, peavey and pick-pole…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"Five major buildings, and several smaller ones, burned. Wallace’s Garage, the Pastime Theater, the Hillcrest Market and Mrs."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"On January 23, 2009, the Tan Turtle Tavern burned to the ground, leaving Northeast Harbor with one less business in an already dwindling business…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"On June 24, 2006 the Parsons School burned and apparently the fire was of suspicious origin. Gene Dyer, the owner of the building and his brother…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… as “The Old Brick Store” was a landmark until it burned in 1915. Crosby’s Federalist style Grist Mill Store dates from 1809 (Thompson 1988) and was…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Samuel Waldo built the first limekiln in which to burn stone quarried from the former prison site for shipment to the Boston market."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Historical Society During the fight warriors burned two mills and a house in the area to try and lure out the settlers, to no avail."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"… 1990s) One of Guilford’s biggest businesses burned down on March 1, 2003. The Braeburn Hotel had been many different businesses over the years…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"was also burned… A day later the Whig and Courier gave a further report of the fire: The fire was discovered in the store of M.B."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… Laura Turner, an island girl who married Dana Burns in 1907. When he died 3 years later, she went to work at the Massey House, a Minturn boarding…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… have been built since then and most of them have burned. Some of the schools include Lind Hill School, a school above the Lutheran Church, primary…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"The huge fire burned down many homes and businesses including those belonging to prominent members of Bath's society such as Davis Hatch and John…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"When the Blue Hill Hospital burned down in 1929, the Blue Hill Inn served a temporary location for a much needed hospital."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"It was added shortly before the building burned down in 1902. After the building burned down, construction began."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"It was bought by Keren-happuch (Norman) Turner. The Turner House served as an apartment building complex. The Braeburn building finally burned down…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… After the Hudson Store and Odd Fellows Hall burned in 1902, a large brick building was built on the same footprint."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"The Nichols were murdered and their house burned. The following month Indians attacked the Algers' garrison house in Dunstan and, failing to capture…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In the spring of 1795 Mr. Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"… cut 180 acres of forest (of which 100 acres were burned off and readied for planting); and built 26 houses and a community center known as the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… around 1900 at the time the original Asticou Inn burned in early September 1900 and the “new” Asticou Inn, which still stands today in 2013…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… but brought thoughts that breathe and words that burn, and ideas that live and fructify, to the great circle of readers of that village and the…"