Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"The Opera House was burned to the ground before the fire was extinguished. Fortunately, the Bath Opera House was reopened later in 1925 to become…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… spreading towards the City Hall, threatening to burn it down with the extreme flames. As it headed to more stores, people were helping to save the…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland

"Since then Portland has expanded, burned, and undergone dramatic changes, many of which reflect patterns of growth seen in other American cities."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"All the buildings burned on the west side except the Free Will Baptist Church. That small brick structure set back away from the road."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"In 1900, the building burned down for the first time. In 1903, it was re-built, this time from brick."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"Mr. Rose recorded in January of 1901, "The I. O. O. F. Block burned down this evening about eleven." The architecture indicates that the current…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The Knickerbocker Ice Co. in Farmingdale burned down in 1895 with only the chimney left, but the whole thing was demolished in 1911 to make room for…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The Knickerbocker Ice Co. in Farmingdale burned down in 1895 with only the chimney left, but the whole thing was demolished in 1911 to make room for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… around 1900 at the time the original Asticou Inn burned in early September 1900 and the “new” Asticou Inn, which still stands today in 2013…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"When the Blue Hill Hospital burned down in 1929, the Blue Hill Inn served a temporary location for a much needed hospital."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"The huge fire burned down many homes and businesses including those belonging to prominent members of Bath's society such as Davis Hatch and John…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… was rung in 1967 by City Hall custodian Theodore Burns at 1 o' clock on Thursday, Patriots Day afternoon as part of a national celebration."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… a different location to be used as a store, which burned down in the 1860s. In the original location of the wooden building, a better brick…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"When he died 3 years later, she went to work at the Massey House, a Minturn boarding house for quarry workers."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Scarborough, a town of three settlements of over one hundred houses and 1,000 cattle, had been destroyed."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"After the British burned and destroyed Portland’s merchant fleet in 1775, trade from that port was diverted to Dunstan Landing."

Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Oak Hotel

"It was never rebuilt. The burning of the Oak Hotel is still a mystery. Eleven years later, in 1986, the Aroostook County Federal Savings and Loan…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… the Columbian Hotel and the Columbian Hall, which burned in 1893. Since the original construction in 1894, the first story and probably the roof…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeastland Hotel

"In 1884, a devastating fire broke out and burned the tavern which also served as a hotel to the ground."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 4, pages 57-76

"… Treat Annie Martin Northern secessionists Plot to burn New York Glassblowers exhibition Fort Sumter Capture of Richmond, Petersburg Lee's surrender…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"Another resident, Russell Burns, was the island lineman for many years. This picture is of Lillian "Lil” Smith taken in the 1950s."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"… Society This picture on the right is of Normie Burns taking islanders out for a cruise and dinner or lunch in Stonington or Isle Au Haut."