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Typically for Maine, Houlton has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) with warm summers and cold, snowy winters comparable to Fargo. The coldest month between 1971 and 2000 was January 1994 with a mean temperature of 0.7 °F or −17.4 °C, though data from nearby stations suggest the Januaries of 1920 and 1925 were equally cold. [ 21 ]
Camp Houlton was a United States prisoner-of-war camp that operated from October 1944 to May 1946 at the former Houlton Army Air Base in Houlton, Maine. [1] [2] The camp was used to house more than 1,100 German prisoners-of-war during World War II. Some of the prisoners were allowed to work on local farms.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Maine for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However the other USAAF support commands (Air Technical Service ...
The Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum is located at 109 Main Street, in the White Memorial Building, in Houlton, Maine.The museum was founded in 1937, after the building, a handsome 1903 Colonial Revival house, was donated to the town by the White family.
This camp had a guard fire on and kill several German prisoners. See Utah prisoner of war massacre: Camp Santa Fe: New Mexico Santa Fe: Camp Thomas A. Scott: Indiana Fort Wayne: Camp Scott held more than 600 German POWs from the Afrika Korps from late 1944 until the camp closed in November 1945. [20] [21] Camp Scottsbluff: Nebraska Camp Shanks ...
Firefighters battle flames, high winds at River Street building fire in Sanford, Maine. Gannett. Shawn P. Sullivan, Portsmouth Herald. March 21, 2024 at 4:45 PM.
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This list of museums in Maine is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non ...