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| The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor... | |
| The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Christine B Rowell recalls the 1947 Bar Harbor fire and her escape... | ||
| Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier...Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar...Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War... | ||
| 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. | |||
| 1947 Bar Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1947 Bar Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf …the Bar Harbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Bar Harbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of Bar Harbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016 | |||
| 1967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...A 12 page special supplement published on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire... | |
| 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) | |||
| Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900... | |||
| 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. | |||
| Bar Harbor Times Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Bar Harbor Times Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Entire newspaper. Report on Jordan Pond House fire. Entire newspaper is devoted to the fire. | |||
| Bar Harbor Burns Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Bar Harbor Burns Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: article from the Bureaugraph , November 1947 on Maine Fires and Situation on Mount Desert Island | |||
| Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Scrapbook, newspaper clippings about 1947 Bar Harbor Fire Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...A green faux leather scrapbook that includes many clippings from the Bar Harbor Times about the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert island... | |||
| 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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| Bar Harbor fire of 1947 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947 Tremont Historical Society | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later 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. | |||
| 1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library 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...Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four...“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... | ||
| Bar Harbor Cottages destroyed in 1947 Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Cottages destroyed in 1947 Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of a hand-printed report (of a BH summer resident?) of summer cottages selected for their Architectural qualities which were destroyed in the Fire of 1947. Greenway Court, Archbold, Thirlstane, Mizzentop and Stanwood. | |||
| Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Forest St. destruction Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Forest St. destruction Tremont Historical Society | |||
| Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mountain Avenue destruction Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Mountain Avenue destruction Tremont Historical Society | |||
| Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Prospect Avenue destruction Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Prospect Avenue destruction Tremont Historical Society | |||
| Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Belmont hotel area destruction Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Belmont hotel area destruction Tremont Historical Society | |||
| Bar Harbor fire of 1947, DeGregoire hotel area destruction Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor fire of 1947, DeGregoire hotel area destruction Tremont Historical Society |