Keywords: Home Service Department
Item 100150
Second Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, ca. 1998
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1998 Location: Waldoboro Media: Cloth
Item 17219
Bar Harbor Fire Department toy collection, 1942
Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: circa 1942 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
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography
"Washington, D.C.:U.S. Department of the Interior-National Park Service, 1970. “Hallowell in the Olden Time.” Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"When people heard the alarm in town, they would call her to ask where the fire was. Ella called elderly people every morning as a community service."
Story
Senator Susan Deschambault: not afraid to take on challenges
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Honoring her family's small business roots and community service through her own unconventional path
Story
Dr Michael Guignard: Passion for research & Franco-American root
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A personal journey of life in a Franco-American community with unique insights on adoption
