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Fire at Millinocket High School & Common School
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Nov. 13, 1921, this headline appeared in the Bangor...
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Dec 15
Christmas in the Camps
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Christmas Dinner in the Maine Woods, Umbazookskus...
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Dec 8
The Magic City - 1921
The “Magic City” as it was and still is known, had grown by leaps and bounds by April 1921. That year the Bangor Daily News was printing...
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Dec 1
First Flight Envelopes
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! On August 4, 1937, the first airmail flight was launched from the Millinocket Airport. The...
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Nov 24
Thanksgiving at Camp Baxter, CCC
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM The 193rd Company of the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the Baxter Camp, Millinocket, operated...
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Nov 17
Honey, The War Dog
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! This is the story of Honey, The War Dog. Honey was the pet husky/shepherd dog of Miss Marian Harris of...
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Nov 10
O. A. Harkness
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! A photo displayed in the museum’s logging room shows Mrs. Alice Harkness christening GNP’s tugboat the...
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Nov 3
The Philharmonic Club
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Millinocket’s past is filled with many organizations and clubs! One was the Millinocket Philharmonic...
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Oct 27
The Millinocket Library Story
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! On November 11, 1919, the first library in Millinocket opened its doors in the town known as...
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Oct 20
It's Football Season!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! It’s time for football! In 1921, a Bangor news article admonished spectators to “give the...
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Oct 13
Another Millinocket Newspaper Discovered!
The Millinocket Herald , Vol. 1, No. 5 is the first copy of this paper to become part of the MHS newspaper collection. The issue date was...
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Oct 6
Music Festival in Millinocket
“A Baton and Band Good Time at Music Festival” is the headline in The Millinocket Herald for May 7, 1941. The feature story tells that...
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Sep 29
G.B. Moran's Stores
Gilbert B. Moran came from Island Falls to the area that would be Millinocket in 1899 and established a men’s clothing store and shoe...
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Sep 22
Millinocket HS vs Oxford St. School
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Is it Millinocket High School or Oxford Street School? Photos keep appearing on Facebook and...
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Sep 15
The Cemetery
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Plans for a Millinocket cemetery in its current location off Medway Road were made early in...
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Sep 8
Old Photo Viewers
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Have you viewed slides through a stereoscope/stereopticon? Young visitors at the museum are intrigued by...
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Sep 1
Lewiston Weekly Journal, 1899, Part 3, Millsite
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues with part 3…the millsite (Note:...
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Aug 25
Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 1899, Getting Into Town
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues…from the train to town! (Note:...
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Aug 18
Lewiston Weekly, Oct. 1899, Millinocket Train Station
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! “Maine’s Magic City – Millinocket. A Wonderous Town Built in Almost a Day and a Night Alone” is the...
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Aug 11
Ham Radio Cards
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! W1KEZ was the call sign for Eugene H. Fairley of Millinocket, a ham (or amateur) radio...