[ARC5] great Maine fires

[gordon white]

Mr.  Vietze,

     Very much enjoyed reading your story on the great Portland fire of 
1866.

Was there another big fire in Portland around 1900?

     Many of my ancestors lived in Maine from the late 1600s, to this 
day. When I have sought records at the Cumberland County Courthouse 
there I have been told the courthouse burned in 1900. Perhaps there was 
another fire.

     And in 1947 my family's summer home at Fortunes Rocks (York County) 
was destroyed in the great Maine forest fire that fall.

  - Gordon White, Deltaville, VA

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