Dead River Area Historical Society To Hold A Golf Tournament August 9th At Moose Meadows

Please join us and help raise funds to have our museum in Stratton professionally painted. Built as a church in 1878, it is a 131 year old wooden structure. Over those 131 years the museum has been painted several times and that paint is so built up, cracked, peeling in huge strips, leaving the bare wood to the harsh Maine winters and compromising the integrity of the building. It needs to be pressure washed, scraped, primed, caulked and painted by someone knowledgeable in that field. The old cracked putty on all the windows need to be taken off and replaced as well, which will also help to keep heat from escaping the building and cut heating costs. Once this job is completed the building, will be preserved for many years.

On display in the museum are artifacts, manuscripts, and photographs that have been donated or loaned by interested townspeople and descendants of original families of the Dead River Region.  Collections from 1850 on include old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the "lost" towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families, and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.

For more information call: Mary Henderson 246-2271