Keywords: freshet
Item 20499
Water Street during the Freshet of 1896
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 22718
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896-03-02 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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.
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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…"
