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Photographer: Alpena Weekly Argus, (PD) via the Library of Congress
Taken: August 18, 1888
Caption: “Alpena’s Big Fire”
Additional Description: Large Part of Third Ward Burned.
Two hundred families, containing over 1,000 persons, driven from their homes.
Loss of Property, $300,000.
Three Million Feet of Lumber Burned.
Insurance Nearly $100,000.00.
Good Work by Water Works.
The Burnt District Contains Nearly Fifteen Blocks.
Places burned nearly all residences of laboring men.
ONE LIFE LOST.
Two Churches, Light House, and Railroad Round House Destroyed.
Rebuilding of the Burnt District Commenced.
Submitted: November 6, 2023, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p758734
File Size: 0.306 Megabytes

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