Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"… fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire. After the buckets came the invention of the hand pumper."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… that the teacher could get it later for it to be burned in a wood stove. They had to erase all of the chalkboards and pick up the classroom after…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… left, is holding a sizable lobster as is Charlie Burns in the picture on the right. These pictures were taken in the 1930s."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"No hearth fire burned for their welcome; no door opened at their coming; no home stood ready to receive them."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"After standing only fifteen years, the Exchange burned on January 8, 1854. Shortly thereafter, Samuel L."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… Society The Central School, built in 1894, was burned Christmas eve of 1906 and was rebuilt in 1907."

Historic Hallowell - Day 5

"People collected fire wood so that they could burn it and stay warm without having power. Well more than 400,000 people, from Down East Maine were…"

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"These logs at most burned slowly. There were also no matches at the time. But even so, the Cascade hand tub was a valuable asset to the Hallowell…"

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."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"When the British burned Washington in 1814, she rescued the full-length portrait of George Washington from the East Room."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"He was also involved in civic projects, including the construction of a meeting house and the formation of local militia companies."

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

"… was attacked, and more than half the town was burned. Over 400 buildings were destroyed and more than 1,000 people lost their homes."

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

"… was April 28, 1919, 18 houses and a school house burned, there was about a $30,000 loss, partly recovered by insurance."

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."

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

"… spread the fire across the Kenduskeag Stream and burned the Fairbanks Building on Exchange Street, before engulfing the Bangor Public Library and…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Fortunes were sure to change once again . Burning the Kaiser, Armistice Day, Guilford, 1918Guilford Historical Society Aerial view of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… the 1920s and the building moved.(5) It was later burned down as a training exercise for firefighters."

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… other enclosed heating systems the average home burned 20 to 30 cords of wood per year--with a resulting high risk of loss of property to fire."

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"pag. Potter, Betty. “Night Lights Burn At Hallowell Shoe.” Kennebec Journal 19 May 1964: N. pag. Snell, Katherine//Ledew, Vincent."

Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

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

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The Turner House was partially lost to fire in the year 1903. One hundred years later, in 2003, the Braeburn Hotel was completely lost to fire."

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…"

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."