In 1942, Walt Disney Productions filmed and released the animated motion picture Bambi. It was based on the 1923 novel Bambi , a Life in the Woods. Disney   planned to base the Bambi character on a mule deer from California but was persuaded by illustrator Jake Day to make the movie Bambi a white-tailed deer, more common throughout the United States.             Millinocket had its own Bambi in 1947 as described in The Millinocket Herald Tribune. An August issue made the fron

Many know of or have visited the “Ghost Trains” in the north Maine woods. The Great Northern Paper Company also constructed other railroad facilities in its woodlands in the early days. A recent museum visitor sent us searching the collection for information on one that ran from Seboomook Lake north to St. John Pond, about eighteen miles. An old newspaper article gives the following information.             This railroad was designed and constructed to move pulpwood from the

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Historical  Society Museum               Since Katahdin Avenue, Penobscot Avenue and Central Street (downtown area) were the first active streets, it is understandable that those were the first areas to receive water, sewer and light services. These streets formed a triangle. Sewers were also added to Pine, Spruce and Poplar Streets, cross streets.             Millinocket Water Company was incorporated in 189

In 1931, Millinocket citizens began the process to build an airport. Prior to that time, an occasional small plane had landed in a field or at the ball park. An aviation field committee was formed and a site was selected on Medway Road. The site, at that time, contained the “town farm (poorhouse) which was located in the area where during epidemics (smallpox, typhoid, diptheria) patients were isolated. Those buildings were removed and a long piece of land was plowed and seede

The first stockholders meeting of the Millinocket Trust Company was held in 1906 after receiving its charter from the state. At first,...

From the early days, GNP mill workers had work designations such as boss machine tender, back tender, 3 rd . 4 th , 5 th  hand, swiper,...