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Flood Waters on the Penobscot River from the Bangor-Brewer Flood of 1902, Number 3
No full textPhotograph presumably from the Bangor side of the Penobscot River, showing Brewer in the background.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1016/thumbnail.jp
Rising Waters at Bangor Water Works
No full textThe Bangor Water Works building shown threatened by the rising waters of the late March 1902 flood of Bangor and Brewer, Maine.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1013/thumbnail.jp
Covered Bridge Middle Section Washed Out, Bangor, Maine, March 1902
No full textWashed out middle section of the Bangor-Brewer covered bridge as a result of the flooding of March 30, 1902.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1019/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1901 Edition
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For those who believe the serious side of life should be brightened by wholesome outdoor sport; to whom the click of a reel, the slish of a line, the purring of water from the bow of a canoe are as music; to whom the forest, peopled with wild game, and rich in lakes and streams in which fish abound, appeals in its grandeur and mystery, this book is prepared as a guide to the richest of Nature\u27s treasuries, the woods and waters of northern Maine.
Here, in an area of 15,000 square miles, or about 10 million acres, lie a thousand lakes and ponds, yielding their waters to six rivers - the Penobscot and Kennebec, running south, and the St. John, Allagash, Fish and Aroostook running north. An intricate network of waterways interlaces throughout this region, and one may journey by canoe within its limits for months without once turning on his course. Its waters are filled with game fish as no other known waters are.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1024/thumbnail.jp
1901 Bangor Brewer Hampden and Veazie City Directory
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State Street from City Hall Tower, Bangor, Maine, circa 1900
No full textTaken from the Bangor City Hall on the corner of Hammond and Columbia Streets circa 1900. Bangor City Hall was more formerly known as the Samuel F. Hersey Memorial Building. The most prominent church shown is the First Congregational Church -- located on the site that would become All Soul\u27s Congregational Church following the Great Fire in Bangor in April 1911.
Bottom right hand corner shows the Bangor Public Library at 11 State Street. This is the current and longtime home of Bangor Savings Bank on State Street.
Also visible are Marston\u27s Photograph Rooms on State Street and Crossman\u27s New Photograph Rooms behind State Street.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1181/thumbnail.jp
Park Street Hill View Taken from City Hall Tower, Bangor, Maine, circa 1900
No full textView showing Park Street hill in downtown Bangor, Maine, circa 1900. Photograph is not dated, but would be between 1893 and 1911. Photograph taken from the perspective of the Bangor City Hall tower located at the corner of Hammond and Columbia Streets, a building which opened in 1893. Much of this area destroyed by the Great Fire of Bangor in April 1911.
Shown here are Norumbega Hall which stood on an island between the Kenduskeag Stream split at at the bridge on Franklin Street. Also shown is the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor at 120 Park Street.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1180/thumbnail.jp
Bangor City Hall, Lit Up, circa 1900-1918
No full textThe old Bangor City Hall illuminated. City hall resided at this corner of Hammond and Columbia Streets from 1893/4 until the late 1960s, being demolished in 1969. Also know as the Samuel F. Hersey Memorial Building.
Shown here are the intersection of Hammond and Franklin Street. American Express Co. can be seen near the left hand lower third of the photograph. This company, a package delivery service, was not listed at this location until the 1901 Bangor City Directory. American Express Co. became known as American Railway Express Co. in 1918.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1186/thumbnail.jp
A Brief History of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
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The Penobscots
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There were estimated to have been 37,000 native Indians in Maine in 1615. The Tarratines were a numerous, powerful and warlike people, more hardy and brave than their western enemies.
They lived on friendly intercourse with the Abenaques tribes until about 1615-16, when the great war of violence, revenge and extermination broke out between them, continuing for two years. The consequences of this war were famine, distress, and a pestilence, or plague, which was wide-spread and exceedingly fatal. It was considered by some to have been small pox; by others, yellow fever.
For six or seven years prior to 1669, a bloody and exterminating war raged between the New England Indians and the Mohawks. The latter were victorious and pursued the Tarratines to the Penobscot, burned their villages and did other damage.
The Tarratines have probably at different times changed the situation of their principal village. At the mouth of the Kenduskeag, they had a common resting place to which they were from habit strongly attached. A league above the mouth of Kenduskeag stream. and near the westerly bank of the Penobscot were undoubted appearances of an old Indian village.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1255/thumbnail.jp