Title

Getting Acquainted with Bangor, Maine

Alternative Title

Metropolis of Eastern Maine Enjoying a Wonderful Building Era Manifold Reasons Why There Should Be An Expansion Industrially

Creator

Board of Trade Journal

Date

1912

Description

It is with combined pleasure and pride that we present to the Journal readers this month the story of Bangor, the Queen City of the East; a city coming out of her ashes more queenly than ever before. We say with pleasure and pride because it is a real pleasure to be able to speak well of friends, and Bangor and Portland are becoming closer friends as they become better acquainted, and too, the whole state viewed with pride the splendid "Maine spirit" evinced by the citizens of Bangor when they met the calamity of 1911, when some $4,000,000 worth of her best business and residential property melted away in a mighty conflagration. The writer was on the scene within twenty four hours of the incident and was much impressed by the buoyant spirit evident on all sides. As one man put it: "It is a severe loss but in the end is going to prove a mighty good thing for Bangor. lt is going to afford her a much-desired opportunity to develop a city-planning scheme which otherwise would have been impossible, and you are going to see a bigger, better and more beautiful Bangor come of these ashes than would have seemed possible two days ago.''

Subject

Bangor (Me.)--History--20th Century

Bangor (Me.)--Description and travel

Bangor (Me.)--Photographs

City planning--Maine--Bangor

Fires--Maine--Bangor

Type

Illustrated works

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Nineteen tens

Twentieth century

Language

English

Is Part Of

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Note

September 1912 issue of the Board of Trade Journal.

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