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| Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burning-uncompressed.pdf …I REMEMBER Bar Harbor Burning A letter borne from the front lines of the Great Fire of 47 captures the enormity of the historic blaze. …In the living room three big win dows looked out over the bay and across to Bar Harbor. …We had planned to head for Bar Harbor to help out there, but we had to wait until the road reopened. …As we moved toward Bar Harbor we passed hundreds of fires burning on either side of the road. | |||
| Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burns-uncompressed.pdf …WHIPPED BY 50-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS WHICH MADE FIRE FIGHTING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, LEAPING FLAMES MAKE SHORT WORK OF BAR HARBOR BURNS $25 million forest fire …Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed summer-resort town of Bar Harbor. …As the refugees pulled out, they could look, over AN ABANDONED SUMMER MANSION their shoulders and watch Bar Harbor s colony of palatial estates go …WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BAR HARBOR S MlLLIONAIRES ^ROW (OPPOSITE) | |||
| The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Fire-uncompressed.pdf …THE BAR HARBOR FIRE (Taken from Mount Desert - The Host Beautiful Island In The World by Sargent Collier) The great fire of 1947 was a crucible …Exhausted men eaugl.t brief naps on the floor of tho Bar Harbor Fire House, the command center, between calls to duty on the ever-shiting fire lines. …T The Paris Figaro on its front page screamed La ville de Bar Harbor est a deni detruite. …Le Figaro tried to imply that Bar Harbor had been fired by Maine peasants protesting great landed estates. | |||
| The Bar Harbor Fire 1947 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire 1947 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Fire 1947-uncompressed.pdf …The Bar Harbor Fire 1947 THE BAR HARBOR FIRE As a preface to an account of the disastrous forest fire that devas tated one third of the total Bar Harbor …Right here it must be stated that the courage of the Bar Harbor people cannot be excelled anywhere in the world. …The estimated damage by valuation was $586,125 in the National Park and $11,218,565 in the town of Bar Harbor. …SLEEPER, BAR HARBOR FIRE DEPT. | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor-40 Years Later-best quality.pdf …Although the substantial Bar Harbor summer cottage of A. …who made Bar Harbor and near by villages their summer playground. …Most of downtown Bar Harbor was saved. …The story of the Bar Harbor fire ran as front-page news worldwide. | |||
| The Bar Harbor Fire 1948 Jesup Memorial Library |
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| RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: RFC Declares BH Disaster Area-uncompressed.pdf …While Guite supervises, Mary Clough receives a call from Kansas City inquiring about a friend at Bar Harbor. Mrs. Helen F. …Harbor) on a similar errand. …RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area (NEWS Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 While federal agencies marshaled aid to combat Maine …Harbor area a disaster area. | L. | |||
| Fabbri Home at Bar Harbor Burns Postcard and Clipping, 1917-1918 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Fabbri Home at Bar Harbor Burns Postcard and Clipping, 1917-1918 Jesup Memorial Library Description: Postcard from 1917 featuring a photograph of the Fabbri Cottage and a newspaper clipping from January 24, 1918 [year written on clipping incorrect] describing the recent fire that destroyed the home. Black and White | ||
| Fabbri Cottage Print and Notes Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Fabbri Cottage Print and Notes Jesup Memorial Library Description: ...House and grounds at The Fabbri Cottage in Bar Harbor, ME... | ||
| Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Prologue-The Great Fire-uncompressed.pdf …The wind shifted again, driving the fire toward the village of Bar Harbor. …From The Story of Bar Harbor by Richard Walden Hale, Jr 1 Bar Harbor Weather 1947 Oct 17 Friday 62 degrees Sunshine Oct 18 Saturday 65 degrees …returned to Bar Harbor later and joined the firefighters. …Frances Spear Seeley Pineo Lane Bar Harbor, Kaine January, 1977 | |||
| The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Maine Fire Story-uncompressed.pdf …Wherever one travelled, sympathy was expressed for the small home owner, the permanent resident of Bar Harbor. …In the Bar Harbor Central Office every conceivable effort was being made to maintain communications. …The world famous Jackson Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory was directly in the path of the Bar Harbor fire. …Scenes such as this stretched for miles across the face of the Gold Coast of Bar Harbor on Mt. | |||
| The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Great Fire of '47-uncompressed.pdf …The Great Fire of 47 LaRues Photos Courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. People hoped, and still no rain fell. …In Bar Harbor they were still It was quiet in the village of Bar Harbor today awfully quiet and quietly awful. …night and Bar Harbor was forever changed. …In Bar Harbor they were still work ing when the flames were within a quarter of a mile of the building. | |||
| Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Destroyed-uncompressed.pdf …Onontakah Tourist cottage, owned by Andrew Peterson of Bar Harbor. The Rocklyn cottages owned by David Higginbotham of Bar Harbor. …Guy Torrey of New York and Bar Harbor. The Barnacles, owned by Arthur Liscomb of Bar Harbor. …HARBOR LANE Dustpan, owned by Dr. James Cunningham of Bar Harbor, Rexcote, owned by Joseph Kloman of Philadelphia. …Brown of Bar Harbor. Miller Cottage, a small hotel owned by Webster Harrington of Bar Harbor. Sunnyside, owned by Mrs. | |||
| Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Tight Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes-uncompressed.pdf …She had just been evacuated from Bar Harbor s roaring inferno via Winter Harbor a few hours before and was somewhat dazed by what had taken place …The woman in the Ellsworth City Hall told how she was ordered to the Bar Harbor athletic field where a canteen was set up. …The wind had played havoc with ; Bar Harbor. …Now it had shifted and towns that had helped Bar Harbor needed help and the men weren t, going to let them down. | |||
| Bangor Daily News 10/22/1947 and 11/1-2/1947 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bangor Daily News 10/22/1947 and 11/1-2/1947 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: BDN Fire Photos-uncompressed.pdf …Hil dreth was in Bar Harbor yesterday conferring with local planners on the rehabilitation of the community. …In the picture, are, left to right: Donald McLeod, Bar Harbor planning board; Major Paul Pooler, National Guard; L. W. …Roland, na tional Red Cross official; and Sheldon Goldthaite, chairman of the Bar Harbor citizens committee. …of Bar Harbor shows that much of the town proper escaped the holocaust last week. | |||
| The Mount Desert Island Fire of Oct. 17-Nov. 14 with particular reference to Acadia National Park Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Mount Desert Island Fire of Oct. 17-Nov. 14 with particular reference to Acadia National Park Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The MDI Fire-compressed.pdf …Savage and Moore reached Bar Harbor at 1 U5 pas. on October 22. …Johnson and Benton) had arrived at Bar Harbor Airport frost Washington, D. …The fire started on the 17th and was corralled by the Town of bar harbor Fire Department with pa k cooperation. …It was within territory under th protestleu of the Bar Harbor Fire kopartic.ent. | |||
| Jordan Pond House Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Jordan Pond House Fire Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Jordan Pond House Fire-best quality.pdf …Conservation Corps buildings on McFar land s Hill in Bar Harbor. …BAR HARBOR REALTY CO. 67 Main Street Tel. 288-3578 CHARLES W. …As of Tuesday morning, nine had found new jobs: in Bar Harbor, a breakfast cook at the Golden Anchor, cook at the Town Farm, a waitress at the Bar Harbor …Sants Agmy Southwest Harbor Danielle Davis 244-3891 George Corkum 244-7135 Bar Harbor Jane MacLeod 667-5109 288-4748 The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday | |||
| Mount Desert Island 1947 Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library |