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Historical Items

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Item 100150

Second Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, ca. 1998

Second Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, ca. 1998

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1998 Location: Waldoboro Media: Cloth

Item 100068

2012 Town Report cover, Waldoboro

2012 Town Report cover, Waldoboro

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 2012 Location: Waldoboro Media: Ink on paper

Item 98773

Gay Block, Jefferson Street view, Waldoboro, 1962

Gay Block, Jefferson Street view, Waldoboro, 1962

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: 1962-02-22 Location: Waldoboro Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Water Witch, Waldoboro, ca. 1838

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.

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Passenger boat landing, Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1940

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Exhibit

Khadija Guled, Portland, 2009

400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Site Pages

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Firemen and Fire Engine 1, 'Water Witch,' Waldoboro, ca. 1945

Waldoboro Fire Department

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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The Overlock House, Thomaston, ca. 1960

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"James Overlock (1813-1906) came to Thomaston from Waldoboro in 1836, and apprenticed as a ship’s carpenter and house joiner with Robert Cushing."

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Samuel Waldo, ca. 1750

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… Germans (settlers of the Waldo Patent in Waldoboro)” and “I will to my oldest son, sixty-seven thousand pounds to spend at gaming and carousing.”…"