Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"For example, when there was a chimney fire, the person would call the fire department, and they would blow the whistle one time."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"The guns were fired from Ft. Williams, the horns came from the 5th Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… electricity in producing sound and was adapted to whistles, sirens, and general electric signals." Mr."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Those whistles show on the roof, each adjacent to a stack. According to West Quoddy Head Light Station history, “during a particularly foggy year…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal. As one writer described them, "The windows were jammed with…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… ordered “a general alarm blown on the fire whistle to call out all available men in town to help shovel the streets.” On Tuesday 40 high school…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… of the Armistice was a day of wild excitement, whistles blowing, parades and torch light processions."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… Saturday night our citizens were greeted with the whistle of the first through train to this village."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Each factory would sound its own distinctive whistle to alert workers that there were fish to be processed. Sardine packers, Lubec, ca."