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Oct 24, 2021
Some Early Stores!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum McAvey and Smart and McAvey and Scribner were two...
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Oct 10, 2021
Dining on the Train!
Get a hot lunch of grilled brook trout served with whipped potato, biscuits, Harvard beets and a beverage for $1.75 per person! If that...
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Oct 3, 2021
Early Homes
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Many houses in the older sections of Millinocket have...
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Sep 25, 2021
Dance Schools
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Dance classes and recitals for the boys and girls of...
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Sep 19, 2021
GNP Employment Office
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum The story of GNP’s Spruce Wood Department’s Bangor...
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Sep 12, 2021
Woods Camp Labor Schedule
A notice from the Spruce Wood Department of GNP dated 1917-18 often catches the attention of visitors to the museum’s logging/river drive...
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Sep 5, 2021
Millinocket CAP
In the 1940’s, Millinocket had a unit of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) with about twenty members. The Maine Wing of CAP had been formed in...
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Aug 28, 2021
Millinocket Schoolhouses Book
A look back into the 100+ years of Millinocket schoolhouses…get a copy of the Millinocket Historical Society’s new 72 page book and...
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Aug 21, 2021
Ripogenus Dam, 1915
In the spring of 1915, work began on the construction of a new dam at the foot of Ripogenus Lake. It would be below the site of a small...
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Aug 14, 2021
Driving Boots and Wangan
Now on display in the logging room of the museum is a fairly large wooden crate with stenciling on one end stating the crate contained...
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Aug 7, 2021
Remember the Drug Store?
Do you remember going to the drug store, taking a seat on a stool at the soda fountain and enjoying a delicious treat? In Millinocket in...
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Jul 31, 2021
Order of Odd Fellows/Rebekahs
Millinocket has had many organizations through the years and for many there were separate men’s and women’s groups. One such group was...
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Jul 24, 2021
Frank and Emma LePage
When Frank and Emma LePage came to what would become the town of Millinocket, there was little here. In a news article interview several...
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Jul 18, 2021
Peavey/Swing Dingle
Still found in many garages, basements and barns around central and northern Maine, the logging tool known as a peavey has an interesting...
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Jul 11, 2021
July 1921, In the News!
100 years ago in July of 1921, these were some of the Millinocket newsworthy items that appeared in print. 1. “A huge new scoreboard and...
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Jul 3, 2021
Lookout Tower
Forest fire lookout towers were abundant in Maine’s North Woods in the early half of the 1900’s. They came about after a series of fires...
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Jun 26, 2021
Pool Halls
Pool halls and billiard parlors were popular hangouts in the earlier years of the 1900’s. Millinocket had its share too, sometimes...
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Jun 19, 2021
I Love a Parade!
Everyone loves a parade! In Millinocket’s early days the largest parade of the year took place on Labor Day. The local mill union...
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Jun 12, 2021
What's new?
Author B. W. Edwards stopped by the museum with five copies of his book 2 in the “Suncookers” series. Edwards has spent summers in the...
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Jun 5, 2021
Immigrants to the Magic City
Canada, Europe, the Middle East, China…the early settlers of Millinocket came from all corners of the globe. Descendants of some of these...