Item 13890 - Start of Great Houlton Fire, 1902
- Item 13890 - Start of Great Houlton Fire, 1902
- Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
- Item 13890
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Image Info The Great Fire of Houlton, May 17, 1902, started in a coal bin in a storage shed in the rear of Dyer's Market behind the Fogg Building on Main Street.
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This photograph, facing up from Market Square, shows the fire before it got out of control.
A high, shifting wind blew sparks that spread the fire south-east from here. The fire burned 20 business blocks, three churches(Unitarian, Methodist and Free Baptist) and 75 houses, 111 buildings in all, displacing 80 families.
