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Historical Items

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Item 25048

Union River, Ellsworth, May 3, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-05-03 Location: Ellsworth; Ellsworth Falls Media: Glass Negative

Item 25051

Union River flood, Ellsworth, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-05-03 Location: Ellsworth Media: Glass Negative

Item 25053

Flooded downtown Ellsworth, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-05-03 Location: Ellsworth Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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High Water

Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… current events and other topics, the destructive freshet of 1846, a trip to Ellsworth with his mother, business failures, property transactions…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Market Hall, Bangor, 1846

"… on part of the foundation -- and lasted until the Freshet of March 1846. Martin drew the illustration of the three buildings and the shops they…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - First Penobscot Bridge, Bangor, ca. 1846

"… on page 220 in a section he wrote about the Freshet of March 29, 1846, which destroyed the bridge."