Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum   Christmas Dinner in the Maine Woods, Umbazookskus...

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...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!               On August 4, 1937, the first airmail flight was launched from the Millinocket Airport. The...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM   The 193rd Company of the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the Baxter Camp, Millinocket, operated...

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...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!     A photo displayed in the museum’s logging room shows Mrs. Alice Harkness christening GNP’s tugboat the...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!   Millinocket’s past is filled with many organizations and clubs! One was the Millinocket Philharmonic...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!               On November 11, 1919, the first library in Millinocket opened its doors in the town known as...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!               It’s time for football! In 1921,  a Bangor news article admonished spectators to “give the...

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...

“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...

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...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!               Is it Millinocket High School or Oxford Street School? Photos keep appearing on Facebook and...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!               Plans for a Millinocket cemetery in its current location off Medway Road were made early in...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Have you viewed slides through a stereoscope/stereopticon? Young visitors at the museum are intrigued by...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!   The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues with part 3…the millsite (Note:...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!   The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues…from the train to town! (Note:...

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...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!             W1KEZ was the call sign for Eugene H. Fairley of Millinocket, a ham (or amateur) radio...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Forty-five years ago, 1979, the Millinocket Historical Society Museum opened in the Millinocket Municipal...