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Historical Items Showing 3 of 382 View All
Item 98798
Title: Waldoboro Fire Department Helmet
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department
Date: circa 1950
Location: Waldoboro
Media: metal
Item 100151
Title: Third Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, 2012
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department
Date: 2012
Location: Waldoboro
Media: Cloth
Item 100150
Title: Second Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, ca. 1998
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department
Date: circa 1998
Location: Waldoboro
Media: Cloth
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Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.
