Name/Title
List of Great Eastport, Maine FiresDescription
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.