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  1. Most of #HollisME burned down as well!

    The Year a State Burned: #Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns

    It also destroyed half of Acadia National Park and many Bar Harbor mansions

    "An eight-mile-long wall of fire burned in #Kennebunkport. In #NorthWaterboro, nearly 60 residents and volunteers were trapped for more than an hour behind a line of fire before escaping.

    "In #YorkCountyME, the fires destroyed most of the homes in #Shapleigh and #Waterboro. then swept toward the sea and consumed swathes of #Alfred, #Lyman, #Newfield, Kennebunk, #Kennebunkport, #Arundel, #Dayton, #Wells, #Biddeford and #Saco."

    Read more:
    newenglandhistoricalsociety.co

    #Drought #Wildfires #MaineHistory #FireDanger