Keywords: lookouts
Item 101495
Where and what is "Winthrop Tower"?
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Media: Glass Negative
Item 19117
DeBoullie Mountain lookout, 1922
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1922-01-23 Location: T15 R9 WELS Media: Photographic print
Item 87389
Johnson property, N. E. Shore, Long Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harry T. Johnson Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 111319
Maine Building for Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903–1904 Location: St. Louis Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
