Bangor Volume II: The Twentieth Century

by Richard R. Shaw

Book Overview

Few New England cities have changed as much as, Bangor has in the twentieth century. Much of Bangor's, downtown burned to the ground in the Great Fire of, 1911, and disastrous flooding in 1902, 1923, and 1936, inflicted extensive damage along the Penobscot River, and Kenduskeag Stream. Even more devastating, in the, eyes of historians, were the losses due to Urban Renewal, like the Union Station (1961) and the Bijou Theater, (1974). But Bangor survives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738537039
• ISBN13: 9780738537030
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"