Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Central Maine Power

"Central Maine Power Ice Storm, Academy Street, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library CMP Overview CMP crews are the reason Maine isn’t still a…"

Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made

"They chose the Flood of 1987 and the Ice Storm of 1998 as primary events but also chose the Hurricanes of 1954, the Blizzard of 1952, the train wreck…"

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"… Academy StreetHubbard Free Library Ice Storm, Emergency Vehicles, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard Free Library The Hallowell Fire Station is within…"

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

"It is moving West North West at 14 MPH with 40 MPH winds. September 6th 1954 8:00 PM Tropical storm Edna becomes a category 1 hurricane and is now…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"… crossing to Bangor would be difficult due to the storm. Martin devised a way to get Old Bill on a ferry gundalow by "making the horses head fast…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"We had an ice storm in progress. I was driving to work when I saw a lot of fallen trees in the woods and branches on the road."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"… Reed when he was forced to port during a severe storm at the mouth of the Kennebec River. In 1801, Agry moved with his new wife to Hallowell."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Greenleaf Cilley

"During its capture, he was wounded while storming the shore battery near the town. He returned to the Naval Academy in January 1848 and graduated as…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… Maine this winter, as the result of repeated storms. Here it is up to the eaves of the building, and young Fletcher Downes is standing on top of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"Sail damage was guaranteed in the horrendous storms in passages around Cape Horn. The sail loft they built in 1875 still stands in its original…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… traveled in all kinds of weather, including storms and floods. Her diary entries record the many times she fell from her horse, sometimes seriously…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"… half happily awaited the end of this horrible storm. Mr. Perkins was awakened by the noise of the cracking timbers. At the end of it all Mr. B.F."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"The Church lost its steeple in a 1947 storm. Founded in 1898, the Women's Alliance held an annual May Day fair, which raised funds to maintain the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"During one terrible storm, lighting hit in the middle of a cow pasture killing the whole herd of cows."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"… leaving Wales she encountered rough seas and storms. She was forced to put into Lisbon since she was leaking badly, and an examination of her seams…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"In December of 1895, a violent storm ripped off a section of the roof of the Cotton Mill. It left a lot of damage such as roofs coming off, debris…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"The North Smokehouse that was destroyed in a storm in 1995 has wood for the fires stacked up against it."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… and an uncommon southerly wind provided a perfect storm of conditions for a major conflagration. Center Street Ruins, Bangor, 1911Bangor…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"Another story goes that when they hit a large storm that broke off the mast and he lashed his wife to the stub of it to keep her from being washed…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Stephen left right after the storm and continued on alone on snowshoes. He spent the winter in his log cabin and as spring approached he tapped his…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon/Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and Afghanistan. Just to the north of Meeting House Park is the town's World War I Memorial…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… 1900 New England was hit by an extremely severe storm. Destruction to shipping was widespread, especially along the Massachusetts shore."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Marina constructed, after a series of damaging storms it was dismantled 1999 • 50 lobster/crab, 89 commercial shellfish, 54 scallop, 38 commercial…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… on the apple blossoms followed by a severe snow storm on June 6th, more frost and then more snow on Oct. 7th."