List of Great Eastport, Maine Fires

Mearl Corporation and Holmes Sardine Factory Fire, May 21, 1947;

Mearl Corporation and Holmes Sardine Factory Fire, May 21, 1947;

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List of Great Eastport, Maine Fires

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LIST OF GREAT EASTPORT FIRES October 22, 1864 Large Section of Business District Destroyed October 14, 1886 Entire Business District Destroyed October 3, 1904 “Quoddy Hotel” - Total Loss January 7, 1913 Memorial Opera House December 19, 1914 Elks Lodge Rooms Burned July 16, 1915 Capen’s Decorator Plant March 28, 1918 Eastern Steamship Wharf - Gas fume explosion September 6, 1920 Seacoast Sardine Factories #4 & #5 Largest fire since 1886 - $400,000 loss December 27. 1923 Roche Building - Cor. Washington & Water August 29, 1925 “Pike & Kilby” Store - 79 Water February 20, 1926 J.W. Beardsley Plant - Total loss August 1, 1926 “Seacoast” Sardine Factory #7 - Total loss. February 10, 1928 “K of P” Block - Largest since 1886 - Loss $700,000 April 24, 1928 Blanchard Manufacturing & Murphy House May 16, 1928 “Seacoast” Sardine Factory #3 - Total loss January 11, 1929 W.E. Buck & Co. - Destroyed January 21, 1929 Beckett, Roche, Conti, Collins & Burr Stores December 18, 1931 McNichol Packing Co. December 2, 1933 Booth Sardine Factory - Total loss March 5, 1941 “Acme” Theater & Red Men’s Hall & Custom House June 12, 1941 Al Cheverie Factory - Total loss March 2, 1944 Quoddy Village Administration Building March 3, 1946 Jacobson Plant - North End - Total loss. December 29, 1946 Unitarian Church - Total loss - “No need of it”. May 21, 1947 Mearl Corp. & Holmes Sardine Factory Largest fire since 1886 February 16, 1949 Argenta Products Co.