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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
151661908 Chelsea, Massachusetts Fire
  • Reference
  • Events, Fire
  • Chelsea MA
146881922 Southwest Harbor Fire
  • Reference
  • Events, Fire
  • Southwest Harbor
Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922. Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering the limited equipment with which they had to work.” Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four hours over difficult spring roads.” Apparently their “combination truck…was making some 40 miles an hour near Burns’ Corner when it was stuck in a bad hole in the muddy road” and “between Somesville and Southwest they were mired time after time and horses that were sent to assist them…had to drag the big steamer” [weighing almost six tons] out of the holes in the road. In spite of these delays the truck arrived finally…in about three hours, too late to do any good. “Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows building.”
Description:
Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922. Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering the limited equipment with which they had to work.” Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four hours over difficult spring roads.” Apparently their “combination truck…was making some 40 miles an hour near Burns’ Corner when it was stuck in a bad hole in the muddy road” and “between Somesville and Southwest they were mired time after time and horses that were sent to assist them…had to drag the big steamer” [weighing almost six tons] out of the holes in the road. In spite of these delays the truck arrived finally…in about three hours, too late to do any good. “Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows building.” [show more]
144211947 Bar Harbor Fire
  • Reference
  • Events, Fire
146361955 Southwest Harbor Lemont Building Fire
  • Reference
  • Events, Fire
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 14 Clark Point Road
144311967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Events, Fire
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 1967-10-19
  • Bar Harbor
A 12 page special supplement published on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.
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A 12 page special supplement published on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.
5249Chelsea Fire Ruins
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Places, Town
  • Events, Fire
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1908-04-17
  • Chelsea MA
Shurtleff Street looking toward Chester Avenue.
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Shurtleff Street looking toward Chester Avenue.
5250Chelsea Fire Ruins
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1908-04-17
  • Chelsea MA
View from the railroad station.
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View from the railroad station.
5054Chelsea Fire Ruins from Bellingham Hill
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1908-04-17
  • Chelsea MA
16502Dirigo Hotel Fire
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Events, Fire
16503Dirigo Hotel Fire
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Events, Fire
16504Dirigo Hotel Ruins After the Fire
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Events, Fire
5946Fire at the First Masonic Hall, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • 1939-01-28
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 353 Main Street
The Hall had been badly damaged in the 1922 fire and rebuilt, but the 1939 fire destroyed it. The Park Theater then on the corner across Clark Point Road is visible on the left.
Description:
The Hall had been badly damaged in the 1922 fire and rebuilt, but the 1939 fire destroyed it. The Park Theater then on the corner across Clark Point Road is visible on the left.
5947Fire at the Second Masonic Hall, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • 1939-01-28
  • Southwest Harbor
5948Fire at the Second Masonic Hall, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Agnes R.
  • 1939-01-28
  • Southwest Harbor
12775Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Brown - Margaret Coffin Brown
  • Vekasi - Jim Vekasi
  • 2006
Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156
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Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156
5055First Baptist Church After the Fire
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1908-04-17
  • Chelsea MA
16253J. L. Stanley Wharf Fire of 1918
  • Set
  • Events, Fire
“…the fire started on December 2, 1918, which destroyed the buildings on the waterfront, swept away the fish wharves, the cold storage plant, a restaurant and several small buildings. J. L. Stanley and Sons were heavy losers in this fire.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 186-7.
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“…the fire started on December 2, 1918, which destroyed the buildings on the waterfront, swept away the fish wharves, the cold storage plant, a restaurant and several small buildings. J. L. Stanley and Sons were heavy losers in this fire.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 186-7.
5952Lemont Building Destroyed by Fire in 1955
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Southwest Harbor
5552Main Street Looking North to the Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
Shows Main Street across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole looking North to the Library.
Description:
Shows Main Street across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole looking North to the Library.
5584Main Street Looking North to the Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
This photograph looks north and shows the library and Allen’s store beyond it on the left. To the right can be seen the Gilley house, the Harmon Block and a corner of the Park Theatre. The fire destroyed the Carroll building, the Holmes store, the Holmes Hotel (space at the left foreground) and the Odd Fellows building, which was rebuilt on its lot across the street.
Description:
This photograph looks north and shows the library and Allen’s store beyond it on the left. To the right can be seen the Gilley house, the Harmon Block and a corner of the Park Theatre. The fire destroyed the Carroll building, the Holmes store, the Holmes Hotel (space at the left foreground) and the Odd Fellows building, which was rebuilt on its lot across the street.
5585Main Street Looking North to the Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
Across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole looking North to the Library. Shows woodshed on the back of the library and a child sitting on the foundation of a burned building.
Description:
Across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole looking North to the Library. Shows woodshed on the back of the library and a child sitting on the foundation of a burned building.
5550Main Street Opposite Odd Fellows Hall Site
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
Shows street across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole.
Description:
Shows street across from the Odd Fellows Hall cellar hole.
5541Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Events, Fire
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Shows the Southwest Harbor Public Library in the background, just to the left of the scaffolding
Description:
The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street. Shows the Southwest Harbor Public Library in the background, just to the left of the scaffolding
5542Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Events, Fire
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
The east side of Main Street looking towards the west side of the street.
Description:
The east side of Main Street looking towards the west side of the street.
5543Odd Fellows Building Cellar Hole
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Events, Fire
  • 1922-03-27
  • Southwest Harbor
The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street.
Description:
The east side of Main Street looking toward the west side of the street.