Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Also, during this period, the Fire House was constructed (1903), The Neighborhood House (1906) and the Northeast Harbor Library and Reading Room…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"According to family legend, after the 1900 fire burned the original Asticou Inn, A.C. Savage was concerned a future fire might engulf this nearby…"

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…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… the district, the teacher boarding around from house to house in the district where he taught school."

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."

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."

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…"

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

"When the grade school burned in the town fire, the spring of 1919, all of the students went to the Green School."

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

"The plant burned in June 14, 1925 but the stone steps still remain. Farmers shipped their milk in large cans out of town for processing."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"The building burned, but the people were amazed at the speed of the train. Another industry the railroad helped is communication."

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

"The Titcomb House burned down around 1945. Nails and part of a fireplace screen were recovered from the ashes."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… which automatically pivots 180 degrees should one burn out, simultaneously telemetering a status signal to Coast Guard headquarters in Southwest…"

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."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Their house burned to the ground in 1926, so the family proceeded to move to the mainland. They had their Golden Anniversary celebration on September…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"Under Sister Mary Emily Burns R.N.R.T., supervisor of the hospital’s X-Ray Department, the school achieved accreditation by the American Registry of…"

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…"

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."

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…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… were captured, killed, or had their homes burned. However, the settlers were persistent and eventually the Abenaki moved further inland and north…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"However, in spite of all efforts, a long-burning fire occurred in 1919 and required extensive measures to extinguish."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Arno Chase’s greenhouse burned in March 1933. Frank Chase built a greenhouse on Main Street, and had about 8,000 ft. of glass."

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… so we had to wait until it melted in order to burn it. Dear Journal, On Day 4 500,000 people from all over the United States came to help."

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

"… heel stock and other things, the mill soon burned again, destroying the mill and other buildings in the town."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… fires occurred in 1939 when the old Grange Hall burned at the site of the present Grange Hall and then, of course, the Bar Harbor fires in 1947…"