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- May 23, 2021
Memorial Day
Memorial Day, once known as Decoration Day, has been observed in the United States since 1868. Millinocket’s Memorial Day parades for...
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- May 16, 2021
Whalen's Drug Store
Whalen’s Drug Store on Millinocket’s Penobscot Avenue was started by E. J. Warren. Many photos of that street in the early days show this...
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- May 9, 2021
Stearns National Thespian Society
1964 marked a milestone for dramatics at Stearns High School. On January 2 of that year, local chapter 2155 troupe of the National...
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- May 2, 2021
Millinocket Women's Relief Corps
The Women’s Relief Corps…mention of this organization keeps showing up in some of the old local newspapers and in articles in some museum...
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- Apr 25, 2021
Lumber Camp Cooks
More on lumber camp cooks and cookees! Although the cook was in charge of the camp cookhouse, the cookee (next in the hierarchy and often...
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- Apr 18, 2021
Lumber Camps
Need a good cream tartar biscuit recipe? Check this one out if you need to feed 40 working men three meals a day! The recipe and other...
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- Apr 11, 2021
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad extended its line from Old Town to Houlton in 1893, passing near what would soon become the town of...
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- Apr 4, 2021
The Penobscot Log Driving Company
The Penobscot Log Driving Company (PLD) was one of the companies controlling much of what was happening on the log drives in the early...
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- Mar 28, 2021
Lumbering Questions
Often museum visitors ask “Why did the lumbermen cut and pile the wood in the winter? Wouldn’t it have been easier to do it without snow...
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- Mar 21, 2021
Katahdin Avenue School Keystones
A central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together. That is the dictionary definition of a keystone. Katahdin Avenue...
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- Mar 14, 2021
Schools in Millinocket
In the early 1900’s, Millinocket’s population increased every year. Oxford Street School had opened in 1907 as the Millinocket High...
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- Mar 7, 2021
So you live in Millinocket?
So You Live in Millinocket? Did you know Dorothy Bowler Laverty wrote a book with that title which explains the history of housing in the...
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- Feb 28, 2021
The Northern
The Northern, a monthly magazine published by the Spruce Wood Department, Division of Social Services, Great Northern Paper Company...
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- Feb 21, 2021
The Hayseeder's Jig and Other Entertainments
Millinocket, February 1921-1926…some of what was taking place back then as found in news articles from that era! “Looking forward to the...
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- Feb 17, 2021
Our Research/Genealogy Room
Searching one’s family tree continues to be one of the most popular hobbies in the United States. The museum frequently gets asked to...
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- Feb 7, 2021
Cyanotypes in our Collections
A recent visitor to the museum mentioned he had a “blue photograph.” These are referred to as cyanotypes and the museum has several of...
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- Jan 31, 2021
Paper Ephemera
Do you have unwanted paper items (historical ephemera) relating to Millinocket tucked away somewhere in your house? Old local...
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- Jan 24, 2021
The Eureka House
The Eureka House, or Katahdin House as it was sometimes called, was located on Katahdi n Avenue. It was one of many rooming...
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- Jan 17, 2021
Happy New Year! 2021
Happy New Year! As we begin a “new year” 2021, this we take a look back at some of what occurred at the museum during an unusual 2020. We...
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- Jan 10, 2021
From Ordinary to Unusual ABCs of Donations in 2020
The ABC’s of some of the 2020 donations to the museum…ordinary to the unusual! A - Ash tray (DiNardo’s Store), aerial photo (Haugen &...