Category: Nature & Geography, Weather & Disasters, Fires
Item 1331
Free Street after Great Fire, Portland, July 12, 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph
Item 1332
View of fire ruins, Portland, 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-12 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph
Exhibit
Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School
"William S. Cohen, The Man and the School William S. Cohen ca. 1944 Item courtesy of the University of Maine Special Collections."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Dress Up Day
"Dress Up Day One of the favorite activities this year has been "Dress Up Day". Both Bill Cook of the Bangor Public Library and Dana Lippitt of the…"
Story
Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker
Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s