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Historical Items

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Item 52077

Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 52073

Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 52082

Richfield Oil Fire, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 70674

Assessor's Record, 131 Preble Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Texas Company (Preble Street Station) Use: Oil Tanks & Pit

Item 37460

2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Oil Tanks & Pit

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111353

Miller residence plan and section, Mount Desert, 2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2003 Location: Mount Desert Client: Natalie Miller Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island

Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.

Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

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 Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"… the 1900s, oil was brought to the waterfront in tanks. Later in the 1940s and 50s, the waterfront was used by people along Water Street and a…"

Site Page

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… with debris and oil as two 10,000 gallon fuel tanks were breached and their contents spilled into the river and throughout the mill; machinery was…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down