Keywords: stable fire
Item 76562
Hose Wagon, Androscoggin Fire Company, Topsham, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Town of Topsham Date: circa 1895 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print
Item 100211
Fire-Wards of Portland warnings, 1818
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1818 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
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.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: The Story of the Heywood Tavern
The story of the Heywood Tavern in Skowhegan.
Site Page
"… one fruit stand, two dry goods stores, four stables, three blacksmiths, three building contractors, three plumbers, one masonry contractor, three…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"These businesses existed largely to supply food and transportation to the Asticou Inn’s summer guests. The livery stable operation was short-lived…"
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.
