Remembering Bangor: The Queen City Before the Great Fire

by Wayne E. Reilly

Book Overview

On April 30, 1911, a fire ignited in Frank Green's hay shed that changed the city of Bangor forever. From the ashes of the Great Fire, the logging and mill town emerged as a modernized metropolis. In this collection of retrospective articles, Wayne E. Reilly takes a look at the town of Bangor in the years before the fire, when illegal barrooms and brothels were as rampant as the outbreaks of typhoid and smallpox. He explores Bangor in its boomtown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596295902
• ISBN13: 9781596295902
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"