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Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum In the early years, all students attended Millinocket High School and Common School. Some younger students attended Oxford St. School or Aroostook Avenue School. Then discussion began regarding the need for a new separate high school building. It would be located across from the Congregational Church on Katahdin Avenue would accommodate 300 high school students. There would be a gymnasium,...

For many years, the local librarian wrote a summary of the library’s collection usage and other activities for the past year to be published in the newest Millinocket Town Report. A report for the period September 1920 through February 1921 was written by Kathleen Snow, the new librarian. When Snow took over, her report stated that the collection had already been “carefully cataloged.” At that time, the library had only existed for a short time…dedicated Nov. 11, 1919. The site was a small...

Forty-seven years ago (1979), plans were underway to start a museum in Millinocket. Some funds from the 1976 Bicentennial festivities were designated by the state for this purpose. Committee members included some who had served on the Bicentennial Committee, interested citizens and delegates from town organizations. It was hoped that a building would be donated to house a museum. Thirty plus years later, the museum was still housed, as it had been since 1979, in two small rooms on the top...