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EUSTIS — The Dead River Area Historical Society will open its doors Saturday, June 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., in conjunction with Stratton’s Family Fun Days, and will feature a scavenger hunt of a must unusual nature.
Twenty-seven homes were brought to this area from Flagstaff and Dead River Plantation before the flooding of those towns to create Flagstaff Lake. The scavenger hunt will give participants an opportunity to find 12 of these homes. Where, are they now? Find them, and then tell us. Photographs of those houses will be provided as they were then, with clues as to where they are now.
The museum officially opens for the season Saturday, July 1, and will be open every weekend through July and August from 11.a.m. to 3 p.m.
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, a 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.
New this year, the society is inviting vendors to set up, free of charge, every weekend the museum is open. For more information call 207-246-2271. Vendors must stay to the left of the building and not on the driveway.
For more information, one may call Mary Henderson, 207-246-2271.
