Keywords: Fire escapes
Item 27186
After the Prison Fire, Thomaston, 1923
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1923-09-15 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 72952
Edna St. Vincent Millay and friends, Camden, 1909
Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: 1909 Location: Camden Media: Photographic print
Item 148197
Opportunity Farm two fire escapes, New Gloucester, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Megquier & Jones Co.
Item 110005
Fire escape for the Shepley Apartment Bldg., 18 Casco St., Portland, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924
"No escapes were made. The State of Maine, No. 3, Thomaston, Maine c 1870Thomaston Historical Society A new stone building was erected in 1851."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"… possibly used to help run-away slaves hide and escape from those trying to capture them so they could then make their way to Canada."
Story
The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea
This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily
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Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask
Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork
