Keywords: fire protection systems
Item 98800
PASS Alarm, Waldoboro, ca. 1980
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1980 Location: Waldoboro Media: Plastic, Electronics
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 111478
Sarajo Gallery interior elevations, Portland, 2007
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2007 Location: Portland Clients: Yosi Barzilai; Sarajo Gallery Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect
Exhibit
Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
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 - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police
"In 1801 the first community fire company, the Union Fire (Club) Association, was established and its rules required each member to keep ready at…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School
"… responsibility as Secretary of Defense was protecting our country. Bangor was proud of one of its former students."
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
Story
An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
