Keywords: Fire horses
Item 9407
Bird Macey and fire horses, Presque Isle, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Presque Isle Fire Department Date: circa 1920 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photoprint
Item 17210
Bar Harbor Fire Station, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
"… Waldo Street Fire slide show The Waldo Street Fire was, and still is, Rumford’s most serious fire."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station
"The 1912 building served as the municipal court (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar)."
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
