Maine Memory Network

Forest Service fire lookout, Snow Mountain, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: circa 1920 Location: T2 R5 WBKP Media: Photographic print

Fire watchtower, Black Cat Mountain, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1920 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print

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.

The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest

Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.

Maine Forest Service

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Historic Hallowell - Volunteer Firefighters and their Fire Clothes

"They also might be responding to forest fires. There are two numbers to call if there is a emergency: 911 or 112."

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.